JPA: question about merging an entity before removing it

Question

I know I have to merge the entity before removing it, but I never thought I have to do it inside EJB. First I have these:

e = (Event) scholarBean.merge(e);
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Answer 1

...and you can even combine those:

Like so:

    public void deleteManCheck(ManCheck manCheck) {
    em.remove(em.merge(manCheck));
}