diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fb62e4974..a9053e054 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -136,9 +136,16 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-      <version>4.8.2</version>
+      <version>4.11</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
+    
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hamcrest-integration</artifactId>
+      <version>1.3</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>    
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/avaje/tests/persistencecontext/TestPersistenceContextOnUpdateDuringTxn.java b/src/test/java/com/avaje/tests/persistencecontext/TestPersistenceContextOnUpdateDuringTxn.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..059eaf089
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/com/avaje/tests/persistencecontext/TestPersistenceContextOnUpdateDuringTxn.java
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+package com.avaje.tests.persistencecontext;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.*;
+import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.*;
+
+import com.avaje.ebean.BaseTestCase;
+import com.avaje.ebean.Ebean;
+import com.avaje.ebean.EbeanServer;
+import com.avaje.tests.model.basic.EBasic;
+
+public class TestPersistenceContextOnUpdateDuringTxn extends BaseTestCase {
+
+  @Test
+  public void test() {
+    
+    EbeanServer server = Ebean.getServer(null);
+    
+    server.beginTransaction();
+    try {
+      
+      EBasic bean1 = new EBasic();
+      bean1.setName("hello");
+      
+      server.save(bean1);
+      
+      EBasic updatedEntity = new EBasic();
+      updatedEntity.setId(bean1.getId());
+      updatedEntity.setName("hello-changed");
+      
+      server.update(updatedEntity);
+      
+      // actually the bean is not in the persistence context so ...  the assert is fine
+      EBasic loadedEntity = server.find(EBasic.class,bean1.getId());
+
+      assertThat(loadedEntity.getName(), is("hello-changed")); 
+
+    } finally {
+      server.endTransaction();
+    }
+    
+  }
+  
+}