DDD, value objects and ORM

Question

Value objects do not have identity. ORM needs identity to update the database.

How to trick ORM?

(Marking Id for value object as internal won\'t work bec

Answer 1

Personally I have the Id field in the value object - I treat it as another attribute of the value object (such as name, location etc).

It may not be true DDD but it works for me.