If you are trying to persist an Entity that has a relationship to an (readonly) Entity that already exists in your DB, you should ensure that the existing Entity is a part of your persistence context (ie managed). OpenJPA is most likely complaining because we encountered an unmanaged field when persisting your non readonly Entity to the DB.
So : ReadOnlyEntity e = em.find(...); // I assume this is different than what you are currently doing. NewEntity ne = new NewEntity(); ne.setRelationship(e); em.persist(e); Thanks, Rick On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Alice <ashanai...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > > We are running into issues with saving entities with fields that reference > read only data. If the entity has a field mapped with 'insertable = false' > and/or 'updatable = false' for @Column or @JoinColumn, > OpenJPA still tries to do an insert into the read only entity. It also > complains that > CascadeType.PERSIST has not been specified on the relationship. > > Is there a way to fix this issue? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://openjpa.208410.n2.nabble.com/Issue-saving-entities-with-fields-that-reference-read-only-data-tp7586076.html > Sent from the OpenJPA Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- *Rick Curtis*