hi,

how can i prevent entityManager from calling a flush when it goes out of context in a bean?

for instance, in my AuthenticatorAction, i have the following code:

public boolean authenticate() {
  try {
    User u = (User) em.createQuery(
      "from User where username = :username").setParameter(
      "username", identity.getUsername())
      .getSingleResult();

    if (!compareHash(u.getHashedPassword(), 
          identity.getPassword())) {
      FacesMessages.instance()
        .add("Wrong password for #{identity.username}");
        return false;
    }

    loggedInUser = u;
    return true;
  } catch (NoResultException ex) {
    FacesMessages.instance()
      .add("#{identity.username} does not exist!");
    return false;
  }
}

this always calls an update on the User being queried. i was having the same problem occur in some validator beans that i have as well, which i prevented by adding

.setHint("org.hibernate.readOnly", new Boolean(true))

.createQuery()

is there any other way to prevent this db round-trip?

regards,
sb