org.hibernate.test.annotations.collectionelement.OrderByTest was introduced by this JIRA, and it passes on master. The question is, org.hibernate.test.annotations.collectionelement.Products#widgets, used in this test, which has @ElementCollection on it and its element type is an @Entity but according to the JPA SPEC {quote} @ElementCollection Defines a collection of instances of a basic type or embeddable class. {quote} so, is this a hibernate specific feature or we should "correct" this test? ------------------------- Best Regards, Strong Liu <stliu at hibernate.org> http://about.me/stliu/bio