Description Adrian Goerler 2010-05-07 03:22:05 EDT

The WDF tests assume that the persistent id is available right after the persist operation. The reasoning for this is deduced from the specification as follows:

§3.2.2 Persisting an entity instance: 
A new entity instance becomes both managed and persistent by invoking the persist method on it. 

§3.2 Entity Instance’s Life Cycle
A managed entity instance is an instance with a persistent identity that is currently associated with a persistence context.

In EclipseLink however, the interpretation seems to be that the persist operation ensures that an entity will *eventually* get a persistent identity upon the flush operation.
an entity the "persistent identity"