Why are unnecessary updates issued when saving entities in a parent/child relationship in JBoss EAP 5?

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Issue

In a one-to-many bidirectional relationship between Parent and Child with both parent and child new instances and child in a Set on parent, a save of parent causes not only inserts of parent and child but also an unneeded update of child to update its foreign key to the parent.

Environment

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 5

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