How to inject a non-entity to a Domain Object

[bleuru]

Not sure if this is a roo issue or me misunderstanding JPA Entities. Shouldn't I be able to have a reference to a non-entity in my Entity? I have a RooEntity with the following structure:

@RooJavaBean
@RooEntity
public class Money{

@Autowired
@Transient
private MoneyService moneyService;

... other private fields that map to the db
}

I get "Could not scaffold controller for type Money, the referenced type MoneyService cannot be handled" and roo stops managing the file.

Am I doing something wrong?

tia

[bleuru]

I'll bump this once then go away.

Am I not allowed to reference any other Objects besides another RooEntity from within a RooEntity or scaffolding breaks? I've tried all kinds of Foo permutations, but unless Foo is a RooEntity I get the cannot handle referenced type error. I thought the @Transient annotation would get Roo to ignore it. Is there anything I can put on the field to get Roo to continue to manage the file? I wanted to give the "rich domain object" approach a try, for example Product.purchase(), but it needs to be able to hold references to service-type objects that aren't just other beans.