Hi Dain, On Apr 8, 2007, at 12:17 AM, Dain Sundstrom wrote:
Is it possible to reuse instances from transaction to transaction?I would like to be able to create a bean in one transaction, detach it and reattach the same instance in a new transaction. My goal here is specifically to reuse instances across transactions because they have a very expensive creation cost
Do you have some reason to believe this? Entities are cheap. They're not like CMP beans that are so expensive they need to be pooled.
Creating Entities from their second level cached versions (em.find) should be cheaper than merging because merging requires iterating the detached Entity and populating the transaction context Entity. Getting an Entity from the second level cache is extremely efficient.
, and no I can not redesign the system.
Which system are you referring to? If you're using Entities as the backing persistent objects for CMP beans, there are lots of different approaches...
Craig
I tried a quick test case using merge, but merge returned a new instance:beginTx(); Employee dain = entityManager.find(Employee.class, dainPk); assertEquals(dain.getFirstName(), "Dain"); commitTx(); beginTx(); assertSame(dain, entityManager.merge(dain)); assertEquals(david.getFirstName(), "Dain"); commitTx();When I try to use the refresh method, OpenJPA complains that the entity "is not managed by this context".So is there anyway for me to reuse instances? -dain
Craig Russell Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo 408 276-5638 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
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