i have a session bean which creates an instance of a CMP entity bean. I turns out that this entity bean (Purchase) is related to 2 other entity beans.

Company(1)--(N)Purchase(N)--(1)Employee

my session bean does:

1 - LocalPurchase purchase = purchasehome.create(bla bla);
2 - purchase.setCompany(company);
3 - purchase.setEmployee(employee);

Everything has REQUIRED set as transaction attribute.
The problem is that the session method i use to create the entity bean returns before relating the purchase to the Company and Employee!

When i look into the database, the cod_company and cod_employee fields are set to NULL. any ideas???? thanks in advance!