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Subject: Re: can JPA Entity extend  non JPA Entity?
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You may be looking for '@Transient' [1] which indicates that a field should not be persisted by the EntityManager.  You may also benefit from an introductory text to JPA such as this one [2].

Hope that helps.

[1] http://javadoc.glassfish.org/javaee6/apidoc/javax/persistence/Transient.html
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Pro-JPA-Mastering-Persistence-Technology/dp/1430219564


On Apr 1, 2010, at 10:56 AM, sapatel [via OpenJPA] wrote:

> Hi all, 
> 
> i am new to JPA. What I want to do is I want all my JPA entities to extend some BaseEntity class where can I define some properites (which are not table columns) to use/share. 
> 
> Is there anyway to do that? 
> 
> -Sanjay 
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