Is there any way to persist a previously removed entity?

The following code throws PersistentObjectException: detached entity passed to persist.

EntityManager em;

// Create entity manager

MyEntity entity = new MyEntity();

em.getTransaction().begin();
em.persist(entity);
em.getTransaction().commit();

em.getTransaction().begin();
em.remove(entity);
em.getTransaction().commit();

em.getTransaction().begin();
em.persist(entity);
em.getTransaction().commit();

merge() is supposed to reattach the bean to tbe session, independently of its current statr. Have you tried it?

Yes, I tried it (see bellow), but I have got the same exception.

EntityManager em;

// Create entity manager

MyEntity entity = new MyEntity();

em.getTransaction().begin();
em.persist(entity);
em.getTransaction().commit();

em.getTransaction().begin();
em.remove(entity);
em.getTransaction().commit();

em.getTransaction().begin();
em.merge(entity);
em.getTransaction().commit();

em.getTransaction().begin();
em.persist(entity);
em.getTransaction().commit();

I investigated how to persist a removed entity and here is a summary of what I found out: http://ideas.softinvent.org/2008/09/ang ... i-and.html