/**
* Method to set an associated value stored with this object. This is for a situation such as in
* ORM where this object can have an "external" foreign-key provided by an owning object (e.g 1-N
* uni relation and this is the element with no knowledge of the owner, so the associated value is
* the FK value).
*
* @param key Key for the value
* @param value The associated value
*/
public void setAssociatedValue(Object key, Object value) {
myEC.setObjectProviderAssociatedValue(this, key, value);
}
