[jboss-user] [EJB 3.0] - Extended Pers.Context and getResultList -> old data

I got a list of Person entities, e.g. anonymous wrote : Doe, John | Miller, Pete | Sixpack, John They are stored in a database and represented in a java.util.List(Person). Ok, now I edit "Sixpack, John" to "Fivepack, John". The List gets updated like this: persons = em.createQuery("from Person order by Name").getResultList(); Now there are two scenarios, depending on how the EntityManager got injected: 1. @PersistenceContext | private EntityManager em; The list now is: anonymous wrote : Doe, John | Fivepack, John | Miller, Pete This is correct. 2. @PersistenceContext(type=EXTENDED) | private EntityManager em; The list now is: anonymous wrote : Doe, John | Sixpack, John | Miller, Pete The list has the right order (due to the database query) BUT the editied Person still is Sixpack, instead of Fivepack. Why? Cause in the extended PersistenceContext the entity remains managed and so its properties don't get updated after hitting the database. If I would want to have a list with updated names I'd have to call //after getResultList() | for(Person p: persons) | em.refresh(p); but that's idiotic since it causes an additional SELECT query for every Person entity. QUESTION: Is there any way to tell the EntityManager that he should check if managed entities have changed when retrieving a list of them by a query? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3963797#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...