Hello John, as to foreign key updates, I don't see it occuring. There is a testcase in the testsuit and it passes (JBoss-3.2.2RC2).
* What JBoss version are you using? * If it is not fresh, could you try to check out a fresh one and test again? Thanks, alex Friday, July 04, 2003, 10:59:59 PM, John Fawcett wrote: JF> Hi, JF> I have a cmp question: JF> We have bean that consists entirely of CMP relationship fields. When we JF> xml-encode this entity bean's contents, we simply want the primary key, JF> and the foreign keys. In an effort to avoid loading the related beans, JF> I've added persistent fields that point to the fk-columns. JF> Amazingly, this seems to work. However, after calling a finder and then JF> accessing the persistent fields of each bean that is returned, I see an JF> update called for every bean on the database log. JF> First, is there a less crazy way to directly access the fk value without JF> loading the related bean? JF> Secondly, why are there these "unnecessary" updates to the db, and is it JF> possible to avoid them? JF> Thanks, JF> fawce ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user