@Kelvin - I'm working on setting up a unit test and I'll get back with you.
@Matthew > Shouldn't we be able to update the @Version field in a preupdate method? *Should* a user be able to? Perhaps... unfortunately the spec (3.4.2) disagrees. -- "An entity may access the state of its version field or property or export a method for use by the application to access the version, but must not modify the version value." One could contrive a scenario where you'd want to manually modify the version field, but AFIK OpenJPA wasn't written to support that behavior. Thanks, Rick
