From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:07:15 PDT

The problem is that the merge operation does implicitly handle both cases! So using the merge operation doesn't mean always modify.
BTW, I prefer a declarative authorization.
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