I'd like to see the code for your TblPdtcde entity. I suspect that you
could simply set the "updateable=false" property on your column
attribute (or element, if xml) to achieve the same results without
having to impact your object model in this manner.

-Tim

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 06:36 -0700, egoosen wrote:
> I've found a solution to my problem...
>
> tblScmpdt.setTblPdtcde(null); //immutable, don't merge
> The foreign key is still set (tblScmpdt.pdtcdeId), so by setting the related
> entity to null, it prevents OpenJPA from trying to merge it.