Jerry - Is the Entity which you are trying to update being serialized/deserialized?
Thanks, Rick On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Jerry Carter <je...@jerrycarter.org> wrote: > Using OpenJPA 2.0.1, I have a date field in my entity. Setting the field > to a non-null value causes the data to be persisted as one would expect. > Setting the value to null, however, does not trigger an UPDATE operation. > I'm still digging, but I'm sure that someone else has encountered this. > > FWIW, the annotations for the field are simple: > > @Temporal(TemporalType.DATE) > @Column(name="purchase_date" private Date purchaseDate; > > I do not specify 'nullable', but it defaults to true and the field supports > a NULL value in the database. > > -=- Jerry > > > >