[jboss-user] [EJB 3.0] - Need advice on refreshing @Version column

I need to merge changes an entity instance multiple times. The second merge causes an optimistic lock failure unless I "manually" update the version string: original.setVersion( em.merge( original ).getVersion() ); I cannot use the updated entity returned from merge because I have many reference to the original instance in several lists. Calling em.refresh( original ) after em.merge( original ) did NOT update the @Version column. Why doesn't refresh update the version column? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3966189#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...