JPA thinks I'm deleting a detached object

Question

I\'ve got a DAO that I used to load and save my domain objects using JPA. I finally managed to get the transaction stuff working, now I\'ve got another issue.

In my

Answer 1

Here is what I used (based on the previous answers)

public void deleteTask(int taskId) {
    Task task = getTask(taskId); //this is a function that returns a task by id
    if (task == null) {
        return;
    }
    EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();
    EntityTransaction et = em.getTransaction();
    et.begin();
    em.remove(em.merge(task));
    et.commit();
    em.close();
}