Hi Christopher, If the context allows, you can try the following method in OpenJPAEntityManager
/** * Make the named field of the given object dirty. */ public void dirty(Object o, String field); ----- Pinaki Poddar Chair, Apache OpenJPA Project -- View this message in context: http://openjpa.208410.n2.nabble.com/Problems-getting-the-old-state-of-a-Map-auditing-tp6807638p6810207.html Sent from the OpenJPA Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.