how would one go about suggesting an enhancement to Hibernate (or JPA) to include a new annotation like @NotSignificant that would allow a developer to tag an attribute, similar to @Transient, so that the attribute would be persisted and retrieved "normally" but ignored for detecting "dirtiness" of an entity when deciding if it should be persisted to the database? == stanton View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4182996#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...