1) yes, probably EM should have thrown an exception - ask about this in the Hibernate or
EJB3 forums
(2) The best way to handle this is to check to see if an instance with the same name
exists in the database *first*, rather than trying to do something that you know is
possibly going to violate a constraint.
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