Forge scaffold faces creates view beans with Id always Long against user-generated Entities ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: FORGE-572 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-572 Project: Forge Issue Type: Bug Components: Scaffold Affects Versions: 1.0.2.Final Environment: JBoss Developer Studio 5 Beta 2, Embedded Forge 1.0.2.Final Reporter: Will Dinyes Priority: Minor Labels: starter Fix For: 1.1.0.Final When running: scaffold from-entity ~.domain.* --overwrite The generated view Bean will always use an id field as a long, even if the entity uses a different type for the @Id. For instance, this code, in an Entity class called ValMealtype: @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY) @Column(unique=true, nullable=false, length=20) private String meal; Generates, in ValMealtypeBean: private Long id; <-- associated gettters and setters --> And, later in the class: return ValMealtypeBean.this.entityManager.find(ValMealtype.class, Long.valueOf(value)); That line in particular doesn't work at all, of course, since a Long can't be parsed out of a non-numeric String. I suppose I could name my meals with hex digits . . . CAFE . . . BEEF . . . but sadly, Chicken isn't going to fly. Basically, scaffold probably needs to look at the type of @Id in the entity and use that to set the id field type in the generated bean. As this is reported against a non-current release, I understand it may be fixed already. In this case, a new Beta of JBDS 5 is probably in order, as that's where I'm seeing this issue.