Hi all ,

I am having this exception thrown in my face whenever I try to persist my object as such


public String saveUser()

{


if (user.getPassword().equals(verify) )
{


List existing = em.createQuery(query)

.setParameter("username", user.getUserName())

.getResultList();

if (existing.size()==0)
{
System.out.println(":: ABOUT TO SAVE ::::");
user.setCreatedBy(credentials.getUsername());
user.setCreatedDate(new java.util.Date());
//em.merge(user);
em.persist(user);

return "users";


}
else

{

facesContext.addMessage(null, new FacesMessage("username already exists"));

return null;

}

}

else
{

facesContext.addMessage(null, new FacesMessage("re-enter your password"));

verify=null;

return null;

}

}

javax.ejb.EJBTransactionRolledbackException: org.hibernate.PersistentObjectException: detached entity passed to persist:



However whenever I call em.merge(user); it ends up doing an update.

Pls can I get help to put this issue to rest?

Thank you have a wonderful day