On 03 Jun 2015, at 04:37, Steve Ebersole <steve(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: I am needing to change how "property access" is handled (as in the org.hibernate.property package). I have no idea how to fit that into Envers and specifically into its ReflectionTools class. The problems boil down to org.hibernate.envers.internal.tools.ReflectionTools#getAccessor and all the uses of it. Basically when resolving a "property access strategy" I need a ServiceRegistry for class loading of custom strategies. I am lost in hooking that into Envers. But then I also started thinking.. doesn't Envers always just use the Map entity mnde and access strategy? And if so, why is it trying to resolve a named access strategy?