I hinted at this in the 'Envers ReflectionTools' email, but wanted to follow up with some details. Part of the work to move away from the last bits of TCCL-based classloading was completely redesigning PropertyAccessorFactory/PropertyAccessor (work which is long overdue anyway). Just a heads up that this is no longer a straight-forward migration item. I took advantage of the opportunity to apply the package split here. I also took this as a chance to add another strategy allowing a mix of Field and Method based access. We talk about this strategy in documentation and other places, so it always made sense to me to provide it. At the moment however I am looking for names for this in terms of specifying it in mappings/annotations. <property ... access="???"/>. "mixed"?