我也不知道如何阐述题目比较清楚，希望达人能够明白。

代码如下：

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package edu.groupProjectPackage;

import static javax.persistence.PersistenceContextType.EXTENDED;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Vector;

import javax.annotation.security.RolesAllowed;
import javax.ejb.Remove;
import javax.ejb.Stateful;
import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext;

import org.jboss.seam.ScopeType;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Begin;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Conversational;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Destroy;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.End;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Factory;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.In;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Logger;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Name;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Out;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Scope;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.datamodel.DataModel;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.datamodel.DataModelSelection;
import org.jboss.seam.faces.FacesMessages;
import org.jboss.seam.log.Log;
import org.jboss.seam.security.Identity;

import edu.groupProjectPackage.CourseCreateQuiz;


@Stateful
@Scope(ScopeType.CONVERSATION)
@RolesAllowed(value={"quiz"})
@Name("courseCreateQuiz")
@Conversational
public class CourseCreateQuizBean implements CourseCreateQuiz
{
    @PersistenceContext(type=EXTENDED)
    private EntityManager em;
    
    @In(value="quiz",required=false)
    @Out(required=false)
    private Quiz quiz;
    
    @DataModel
    private List<Question> questions;
    
    @DataModelSelection
    @Out(required = false)
    private Question question;
    
    @In
    private FacesMessages facesMessages;
    
    @Logger
    private Log log;
    
    @In Identity identity;
    
    @Factory("questions")
    
    @Begin
    public void createQuiz()
    {
        question = new Question();
        quiz = new Quiz();
        questions = new Vector<Question>();
        question.setText("question1");
        questions.add(question);
        quiz.setTitle("firstquiz");
        quiz.setStart(new Date(0));
        quiz.setEnd(new Date(15));
        quiz.setQuestions(questions);
        System.out.println(quiz.getDecimalScore()+ " "+ quiz.getFlagDatePass()+ " "+
                quiz.getId()+" " + quiz.getNumberOfCorrectAnswer()+" "+ quiz.getTitle()+
                " "+quiz.getEnd()+ " "+ quiz.getStart()+ " "+ quiz.getQuestions().size());
        System.out.println("hello");
    }

    @End
    public void submitQuiz()
    {
        System.out.println("how are you");
        em.persist(quiz);
        //log.info("Create a new Quiz #{quiz.title}");
        //facesMessages.add("Done.#{quiz.title}");
    }
    
    @Remove
    public void destroy(){}

}

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问题出在点击xhtml里的submit按钮时，调用submit()函数，然后碰到persist()就出问题了：

17:22:22,256 INFO  [STDOUT] Hibernate:
    insert
    into
        quizzes
        (
    end, start, title)
values
    (?, ?, ?)
17:22:22,264 INFO  [STDOUT] Hibernate:
    insert
    into
        quizzes_questions
        (quizzes_id, questions_id)
    values
        (?, ?)
17:22:22,265 ERROR [AbstractFlushingEventListener] Could not synchronize database state with session
org.hibernate.TransientObjectException: object references an unsaved transient instance - save the transient instance before flushing: edu.columbia.w4156.sasuke.Question
    at org.hibernate.engine.ForeignKeys.getEntityIdentifierIfNotUnsaved(ForeignKeys.java:219)
    at org.hibernate.type.EntityType.getIdentifier(EntityType.java:397)
    at org.hibernate.type.ManyToOneType.nullSafeSet(ManyToOneType.java:78)
    at org.hibernate.persister.collection.AbstractCollectionPersister.writeElement(AbstractCollectionPersister.java:755)
    at org.hibernate.persister.collection.AbstractCollectionPersister.recreate(AbstractCollectionPersister.java:1143)
....................

Could not synchronize database state with session
org.hibernate.TransientObjectException: object references an unsaved transient instance - save the transient instance before flushing: edu.columbia.w4156.sasuke.Question

我不了解Seam，但是从错误提示可以看出来原因。
你在保存一个对象的时候，这个对象引用了另外一个对象，但是被引用的对象并没有被存到数据库里面。

question = new Question();
        quiz = new Quiz();
        questions = new Vector<Question>();
        question.setText("question1");
        questions.add(question);
        quiz.setTitle("firstquiz");
        quiz.setStart(new Date(0));
        quiz.setEnd(new Date(15));
        quiz.setQuestions(questions);

就是这里。
你的question 也对应一张表吧？而且quiz和question是一对多的关系吧？你这么写是不行的。。在你保存quiz的时候，JPA会去找quesiont引用，但是你没有，所以报错了。

话说，哥们真早
5点还在好好学习。。。。

太感谢了。

没办法。人生啊，5点还在工作。。。

另外，question的确也是一张表，我再试试。