Just been doing some more debugging on this - it appears that the correct values are being passed through and are assigned to an entity instance, but they blow up when trying to do the em.merge(author) call.
The stack trace I get is: ### AUTHOR [EMAIL PROTECTED] ### AUTHOR ID 0 ### AUTHOR NAME sdfsdssdfs DEBUG - opened session at timestamp: 12208732519 DEBUG - begin DEBUG - opening JDBC connection DEBUG - total checked-out connections: 0 DEBUG - using pooled JDBC connection, pool size: 0 DEBUG - current autocommit status: true DEBUG - disabling autocommit DEBUG - after transaction begin DEBUG - id unsaved-value: 0 DEBUG - transient instance of: com.foo.jpaweb.model.Author DEBUG - merging transient instance DEBUG - saving [com.foo.jpaweb.model.Author#<null>] DEBUG - executing insertions DEBUG - Wrapped collection in role: com.foo.jpaweb.model.Author.books DEBUG - executing identity-insert immediately DEBUG - Inserting entity: com.foo.jpaweb.model.Author (native id) DEBUG - about to open PreparedStatement (open PreparedStatements: 0, globally: 0) DEBUG - insert into authors (name, id) values (?, ?) Hibernate: insert into authors (name, id) values (?, ?) DEBUG - preparing statement DEBUG - Dehydrating entity: [com.foo.jpaweb.model.Author#<null>] DEBUG - binding 'sdfsdssdfs' to parameter: 1 DEBUG - about to close PreparedStatement (open PreparedStatements: 1, globally: 1) DEBUG - closing statement DEBUG - could not insert: [com.foo.jpaweb.model.Author] [insert into authors (name, id) values (?, ?)] java.sql.SQLException: Parameter #2 has not been set. at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.ConnectionJDBC2.prepareSQL(ConnectionJDBC2.java: 613) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---