Detach an entity from JPA/EJB3 persistence context

Question

What would be the easiest way to detach a specific JPA Entity Bean that was acquired through an EntityManager. Alternatively, could I have a query return detached objects in

Answer 1

Since I am using SEAM and JPA 1.0 and my system has a fuctinality that needs to log all fields changes, i have created an value object or data transfer object if same fields of the entity that needs to be logged. The constructor of the new pojo is:

    public DocumentoAntigoDTO(Documento documentoAtual) {
    Method[] metodosDocumento = Documento.class.getMethods();
    for(Method metodo:metodosDocumento){
        if(metodo.getName().contains("get")){
            try {
                Object resultadoInvoke = metodo.invoke(documentoAtual,null);
                Method[] metodosDocumentoAntigo = DocumentoAntigoDTO.class.getMethods();
                for(Method metodoAntigo : metodosDocumentoAntigo){
                    String metodSetName = "set" + metodo.getName().substring(3);
                    if(metodoAntigo.getName().equals(metodSetName)){
                        metodoAntigo.invoke(this, resultadoInvoke);
                    }
                }
            } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }
}