[hibernate-dev] Embedded value not null when it includes an @ElementCollection

Hi, I've created a test for OGM where we store an @Embeddable containing a list annotated with @ElementCollection [1]: This is the embedded: @Embeddable public class PhoneNumber { private String main; @ElementCollection private List<String> alternatives; ... } In the test [2] I first save an entity with the embedded attribute set to null and then I call a session.get(...) to obtain it. The embedded attribute is not null as I was expecting. The same this happend when I've tried it on ORM, is this the expected behaviour? Thanks, Davide [1] https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-ogm/blob/8a8b29f660973cad4c340931c... [2] https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-ogm/commit/bfed4e2df06f18960502af2...