merge() and embedded composite identifiers ------------------------------------------ Key: HHH-799 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-799 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Components: core Reporter: Steve Ebersole Assignee: Steve Ebersole Priority: Minor Fix For: 3.1 beta 2 attempting a merge() on an entity with an embedded composite identifier currently breaks due to the fact that internally the merge processing attempts to call get() on any transient entities; the problem there is that in the case of embedded composite identifiers the get processing actually populates the state into the entity class instance passed in as the identifier. Then simple fix seems to be just forcing a deep copy of the entity being merged in this case and passing the copy into get(). Need more tests to verify though.