I've posted the following comment on https://jira.springsource.org/browse/ROO-1040

Alan,
Since ROO-384 has been closed after your comment in Sep 10 are you assuming that the work around there will also work here to a) remove the "@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)" and/or b) to add the @PrePersist.

Also I'm as of yet unclear how one orders ITDs onto ITDs; perhaps you or Andy or someone else knows how to enforce that Annotator will add Anno onto "id". (That Annotator is applied after Demo.) And how this is done when there is an ITD to an ITD to an ITD.