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[jpa-spec users] [jsr338-experts] Re: changes for 7.6.2 Container-managed Transaction-scoped Persistence Context

From: Linda DeMichiel <linda.demichiel_at_oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:19:17 -0800

On 11/29/2011 11:06 AM, Scott Marlow wrote:
> Hi Linda,
>
>>
>> Perhaps I am failing to grasp your concern here, but I see the intention
>> of the last
>> paragraph of section 7.6.2 as specifying the user-visible behavior that
>> is required
>> to result. Your paragraph above describes a possible implementation
>> strategy to
>> achieve it, but I don't think the spec needs to include that.
>>
>
>
> I think that the current 7.6.2 wording "detached at the end of the method call", is ambiguous about which method call is
> intended (the entity manager method invocation or the container level method invocation.)
>
> I think that clarifying it with one of the following changes, would eliminate the ambiguity.
>
> Updated proposal for last paragraph in 7.6.2:
>
> "
> If the entity manager is invoked outside the scope of a transaction, any entities loaded from the database will
> immediately become detached at the end of the container level method invocation call.
> "

Just to be very clear.... What are you referring to by "container level method
invocation call"? The call to the entity manager proxy?

thanks,

-Linda


>
> Regards,
> Scott