This looks good, but in my case I can't annotate the classes.  Is  
there a way to specify this via XML or a property?

-dain

On Feb 1, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Patrick Linskey wrote:

> Yes, you can do this:
> http://incubator.apache.org/openjpa/docs/latest/manual/ 
> manual.html#ref_g
> uide_pc_oid_datastore
>
> -Patrick
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dain Sundstrom [mailto:dain@iq80.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:55 AM
>> To: open-jpa-dev@incubator.apache.org
>> Subject: Unknown primary key
>>
>> Does JPA or OpenJPA have support for what is called unknown primary
>> key in the EJB CMP 2.0 spec.  An unknown primary key is the pk of an
>> entity bean that does not have a field (or abstract getter/setter)
>> for a primary key.  Instead the framework adds a virtual
>> field to the
>> bean that contains the primary key.  The bean can get access to the
>> primary key instance calling "Object
>> EntityContext.getPrimaryKey()".
>> Typically, the unknown primary key is implemented using database
>> identity and a java.lang.Long.
>>
>> I can add a real field to the class via byte code transformation for
>> CMP1 entity beans, but would perfer not to.  For CMP2, I'm already
>> generating a subclass so I already have a place to put the field.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -dain
>>