Hi, I am working with the CRUD framework, with everything configured in components.xml. What I'm trying to add is the concept of last_updated_by - this is just a string that will be equal to #{identity.username} I can do this fine for a new object: | <factory name="vacancy" value="#{vacancyDAO.instance}" /> | <fwk:entity-home name="vacancyDAO" | entity-class="com.example.model.Vacancy" | new-instance="#{newVacancy}"/> | | <component name="newVacancy" class="com.example.model.Vacancy"> | <property name="last_updated_by">#{identity.username}</property> | <property name="created_by">#{identity.username}</property> | </component> | However, without extending entity-home and making a real class for the component, I'm at a bit of a loss of how to insert that #{identity.username} property to an existing object when calling vacancy.update. Is there a way to do this? (I don't believe you can inject a property direct to a POJO Entity?) cheers phil View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4046304#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...