Integration

Hello all,

I am using Toplink/JPA in my application and have had great success with it previously. The problem I am running into here seems quite odd. I have an annotated pojo similar to the following as the parent class:

public class ParentClass {

     @Column(name = "multiple")
     protected int multiple = 1;

     @Column(name = "description")
     protected String description;

     @OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, mappedBy = "myParent")
     protected List<Child> answers = new ArrayList<Child>();

    /*
     * necessary getters and setters below
     */

     ...
}

and an other as the child class:

public class Child {

     @ManyToOne(cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
     @JoinColumn(name = "entry_id")
     private ScorecardEntry myEntry;
}

The problem is that when I change the parent class by changing multiple and/or description as well as add new (unmanaged/unpersisted) Child objects to the collection and do a em.merge(parent); all of the children are being persisted but the parent objects fields are not. I sure I am doing something wrong and that is the cause but I can't seem to figure out what it is. Any information that can be provided is greatly appreciated in advance.

Thanks,
Justen L. Britain