[hibernate-dev] JPA Events

Hi guys, I opened an issue in the JPA spec here yesterday: https://github.com/javaee/jpa-spec/issues/167 because @PreUpdate and @PrePersist events are not fired when I save a collection on the owner. Since then, a discussion with Oliver Gierke from the SpringDATA team started and I wanted to know your opinion on this. Basically the question is: if you have Product with a Collection<String> attribute and you update the collection, shall @PreUpdate event be fired. As Oliver mentioned the JPA spec says: ------- The PreUpdate and PostUpdate callbacks occur before and after the database update operations to entity data respectively. ------- so to me it is obvious that when an attribute of the Product is changed then this means that @PreUpdate event for the Product must be fired. What do you think? Should I open a bug in Hibernate? -- Regards, Petar! Karlovo, Bulgaria. --- Public PGP Key at: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x19658550C3110611 Key Fingerprint: A369 A7EE 61BC 93A3 CDFF 55A5 1965 8550 C311 0611