/** * 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); }