Hi,
I'm using OpenJPA 2.1.0 and make use of the @ElementDependent annotation. Recently I discovered following unexpected behaviour. I have an entity that contains a collection of dependent elements. When I load the entity in the persistence context, make changes on some of its attributes (but not on the dependend elements collection) and merge the entity, then the dependent elements are deleted upon the transaction commit. As the entity is already managed the merge should actually do nothing. The loading of the dependent elements collection is lazy and I haven't loaded any of them, but the dependend elements were not removed from the collection and should be referenced at the time of commit, so I would expect them to be retained. Is it a bug or a feature? Kind regards, Michael.
