[news.eclipse.rt.eclipselink] Re: Changes in mutable objects not detecte

[Sabine Heider <sabine.heider@xxxxxxx>]

Hi!

> How do these changes occur? Are the mutable objects public and being
> changed directly?

Almost. The application uses a getter method to get a reference to a 
byte array. The application then uses this reference to modify the byte 
array directly without calling a setter method afterwards.

> Because if you were using a setter (thus overwriting
> the object) then there should be no problem. (This is how I do it for
> e.g. Calendar.)

Yes, that works, I'm not having problems with those parts. But the 
application I'm trying to port also changes the arrays directly, not via 
the setters. I couldn't find anything in the JPA spec that would 
disallow this kind of access, so I would expect that EclipseLink is able 
to detect the change somehow.

Best regards,
Sabine