Roo keeps changing property from "private <type>" to "private final <type>"

I've got one class in my application that Roo keeps making the properties "final" on. Of course that removes the setter and seems to remove a finder too.

The class is a pretty simple Notes class with two properties (name, text). There are two OneToMany Sets supported by a NotesIngredient Class that let you know:

• Ingredient notes, if the note is a set of notes;
• Note sets that a particular note is part of.

If I go in an reset things to just "private", e.g. "private String name; private String text", etc. things are fine. But the next time I make any kind of significant change in the Roo Shell, it changes all the properties back to final, and removes the annotated finder "findNotesByNameEquals".

Any idea what's up or how I can fix this?

I tried to attach the Notes.java and NotesIngred.java files, but had problems so I'm including the gist of them below.

Thanks! Richard

Note.java

Code:

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@Audited
@RooJavaBean
@RooToString
@RooJpaActiveRecord(finders = { "findNotesByNameEquals" })
public class Note extends BaseObject implements Comparable<Note> {

        @NotNull
        @Column(unique = true)
        @Size(min = 2, max = 30)
        private final String name;

        @Size(min = 0, max = 4096)
        private final String text;

        @OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, mappedBy = "parentNote")
        private final Set<NoteIngred> ingredients = new HashSet<NoteIngred>();

        @OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, mappedBy = "ingredNote")
        private final Set<NoteIngred> noteSets = new HashSet<NoteIngred>();

        public Note(String name, String text) {
                super();
                this.name = name;
                this.text = text;
        }

        // hasCode, equals, compareTo and a couple of customfinders follow, but ommitted.
}

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NoteIngred.java

Code:

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@Audited
@RooJavaBean
@RooToString
@RooJpaActiveRecord
@Table(name="note_ingred",
uniqueConstraints=
@UniqueConstraint(columnNames={"parent_note", "seq"})
                )
public class NoteIngred extends BaseObject implements Comparable<NoteIngred> {

    @NotNull
    @ManyToOne
    private Note parentNote;

    @NotNull
    private Integer seq;

    @NotNull
    @ManyToOne
    private Note ingredNote;

    // hasCode, equals, compareTo follow, but ommitted.

}

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