About Question enthuware.oce-jpad.v6.2.506 :

[jszczepankiewicz]

There is: "It is used by the application to force synchronization of the entities with the database."

It would be more precise to state:
"It is used by the application to force synchronization of the entities to the database."
to reflect direction of information flow.

[jszczepankiewicz]

Second:

I have doubts about statement:
"It might cause the persist operation to be cascaded to referenced entities as well.".
Are you sure that the cascading waits till flush occurs and does not starts on persist (which might happen much earlier)?

[admin]

1. with has now been changed to to.
2. The persistence provider may not necessarily initiate database synchronization immediately upon a call to persist however, a call to flush will definitely trigger the persistence provider to initiate database synchronization.

thank you for your feedback!
Paul.