5.8. Modifying managed/persistent state

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Entities in managed/persistent state may be manipulated by the application and any changes will be automatically detected and persisted when the persistence context is flushed.
There is no need to call a particular method to make your modifications persistent.

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<pre class="prettyprint highlight">`Person person = entityManager.find( Person.class, personId );
person.setName("John Doe");
entityManager.flush();`</pre>
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<div class="title">Example 243. Modifying managed state with Hibernate API</div>
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<pre class="prettyprint highlight">`Person person = session.byId( Person.class ).load( personId );
person.setName("John Doe");
entityManager.flush();`</pre>
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