EJB 3.0 Preview 4 tries to persist static final fields

[ceracm]

Some of my entity beans have static final fields.
JBOSS EJB 3 Preview 4 tries to persist them.
I had to use the @Transient annotation to prevent it from doing this:

public class Foo implements Serializable {
 @Transient
 public static final int NEW = 0;

...
}

I would have expected these fields to be ignored.

[ceracm]

Any comments on this issue?

[epbernard]

This is a bug, it has been clarified in the spec and should be fixed. There is an open issue in Hibenate Annotations