Hello all, hopefully someone can help me with this problem I've got.

I have an entity bean called FileNamingTemplate with the following ID field:

     @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator="fntGen")
     @SequenceGenerator(name="fntGen", sequenceName="FILE_NAME_TMPLT_SEQ")
     @Id @NotNull
     @Column(name="FILE_NAME_TMPLT_ID")
     public Integer getFileNameTemplateId() {
          return fileNameTemplateId;
     }

I have another entity bean called FileNamingAttribute which has its own sequence-generated ID.  It also maintains a link back to the FileNamingTemplate that it belongs to.

     @Column(name="FILE_NAME_TMPLT_ID")
     public Integer getFileNamingTemplateId() {
          return fileNamingTemplateId;
     }

So the issue I have is that I am persisting a FileNamingTemplate and several FileNamingAttribute objects in the same transaction, and I need to get the sequence-generated value from the FileNamingTemplate's ID field into the FileNamingAttribute's fileNamingTemplateId field.  I know this is possible using ManyToOne relationships but for design reasons if it's possible I'd like to find another way to do it.  If I try to set the value like so after I've merged the template:

fna.setFileNamingTemplateId(template.getFileNameTemplateId())

It does not work, just gives it a null value.

Any ideas or is this not even possible?  Thanks.