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

[Sabine Heider <sabine.heider@xxxxxxx>]

Hi James!

You wrote:
> For dates you can set the persistence property,
>
> "eclipselink.temporal.mutable"="true"

Thanks, that's what I was looking for - and it works as expected.

> For the byte array you can mark the mapping as mutable using @Mutable.

I tried this out and it worked for a byte[] array. However, I tested it 
also on the other array types that are supported according to the JPA 
spec, i.e. Byte[], char[] and Character[], and it failed on all of them.
That's not limiting me, actually, as I have only a use case for the 
byte[] array (I haven't seen the other array types in real-life 
applications so far). Still, I wanted to mention it.

It would be much nicer, though, to have a global switch like the one for 
the temporal types. It would be more consistent and would reduce the 
effort when porting _many_ applications.

Best regards,
Sabine