If someone can point me in the right direction I would be very appreciative.

@Version not working as I expected with cascade saving.

I have 2 classes: PARENT_CLASS and CHILD_CLASS.

PARENT_CLASS contains a set of CHILD_CLASS.

Both class PARENT_CLASS and CHILD_CLASS have a field annotated @Version.

If I call merge() on either PARENT_CLASS or CHILD_CLASS their respective version number is incremented.

However, if I add a new instance of CHILD_CLASS as a child to an instance of PARENT_CLASS and then call merge() on parent instance, the version number for the PARENT_CLASS is incremented, but the CHILD_CLASS version is inserted into the database as 0 when the merge is cascaded to the child.

isn't it the 0'th version when it's new?

The child has a version == 0 when it is first created on the client before being saved to the database. This should be incremented before being inserted to the DB. This is what happens if i directly call merge() on the child. It is only when the merge cascades from the parent to the child that I get a version of 0 for the child in the database,