On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:37 AM, C N Davies <cnd@cndavies.com> wrote:
> On this point, I just use reflection to get the setters/getter and call
> the
> new entity's setters against the getters on my detached entity, it's pretty
> fast and then you can merge the new entity with the old one.
>
Yes, something like Apache commons Bean Utils could help with this, though
I'm not sure how you'd handle collections. A generic "self refresh" function
would load in collections as well, unless you read the JPA annotations to
get the FetchType, that would be cool.
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Daryl Stultz
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