Dah ! thankyou ...the following works 
(for the record i assumed Eager loading was  default for Enum since
one-to-one mapping?!)

    @Column( name = "Gender" )
    @Basic( fetch = FetchType.EAGER )
    @Enumerated( EnumType.STRING )
    private Gender            gender           = Gender.UNSPECIFIED;

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Patrick Linskey-2 wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Are you using the OpenJPA enhancer? What happens if you explicitly set
> the fetch mode to eager in the @Enumerated annotation?
> 
> -Patrick
> 
> On 11/28/07, gav <gavin_bayfield@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello, i have a WebsphereCE application environment (OpenEJB/OpenJPA
>> 1.0.0/MySQL 5.0.27 with JDBC driver 3.1.14).
>> When running a NamedQuery on the Entity Bean i find the returned object
>> is
>> fully populated as expected EXCEPT for the Enum(erated) type which always
>> came back null (in error).
>>
>> @Entity
>> @Table( name = "Client" )
>> @NamedQueries( {
>> ...
>>         @NamedQuery( name = "Client.getClientCasenoteDataByEmpiId", query
>> =
>> "select c from Client c JOIN FETCH c.assets where c.epmiId = :epmiId" ),
>> ...
>> public class Client implements Serializable {
>> ...
>>     @Column( name = "Gender" )
>>     @Enumerated( EnumType.STRING )
>>     private Gender            gender           = Gender.UNSPECIFIED;
>>
>> // This gender field in the Client object graph always comes back null
>> despite the database having a column definition consistent with storing
>> the
>> enum values as strings in database.
>>
>> Gender varchar(255) NULL     (a column definition confirmed by
>> autogeneration by openjpa using synchronizemappings property)...
>>
>> Enum class is
>>
>> public enum Gender {
>>
>>     MALE, FEMALE, UNSPECIFIED;
>>
>>
>> For the record also tried the default ordinal approach, also the MySQL
>> 3.1.12,3.1.14 and 5.0.4 JDBC Drivers but always get nothing back but
>> null.
>> Has anyone seen this problem or could point me in the right direction ???
>> thanks for your help !
>>
>>
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> 
> 
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> 
> 
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