Cannot get @Consumed to work for JpaConsumer endpoint

[Chris Wolf]

I have a route whose first endpoint is .from("jpa:...) - i.e. a
consumer.  I have consumeDelete=false and in my entities, I have a
method
marked with "@Consumed" - in this method, I invoke another setter to
set a nullable persistent field of type DATE.  Everything works,
but this date field is still null.  When I run in the debugger, the
method marked by @Consumed never gets invoked.

How/what detects this "@Consumed" annotation?

Thanks,

   -Chris