Can someone verify I am not off my rocker here? Re : https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-7161 We have a case where Session defines a method that returns a public interface org.hibernate.IdentifierLoadAccess. When SessionImpl implements those methods it redefines the return to instead be a private inner class that implements that org.hibernate.IdentifierLoadAccess interface. As I understood it, when accessed through the Session interface what return type is defined by SessionImpl is irrelevant. And indeed I am not able to reproduce this when access those methods via Session. My IDE gives me errors if I try to cast that reference to SessionImpl instead. -- steve(a)hibernate.org http://hibernate.org