When trying to define join columns on a @OneToMany association using @JoinFormula inside a @JoinColumnsOrFormulas list, A null pointer exception is thrown since the the bind fails to treat the Ejb3Column as a formula one, and tries to access the Column part of it.

Stack trace:
2015-07-07 01:54:12 ERROR HibernateUtil:22 - Initial SessionFactory creation failed.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.hibernate.cfg.Ejb3Column.isNullable(Ejb3Column.java:185)
at org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.CollectionBinder.buildCollectionKey(CollectionBinder.java:1091)
at org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.CollectionBinder.bindCollectionSecondPass(CollectionBinder.java:1524)
at org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.CollectionBinder.bindOneToManySecondPass(CollectionBinder.java:865)
at org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.CollectionBinder.bindStarToManySecondPass(CollectionBinder.java:780)
at org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.CollectionBinder$1.secondPass(CollectionBinder.java:719)
at org.hibernate.cfg.CollectionSecondPass.doSecondPass(CollectionSecondPass.java:54)
at org.hibernate.boot.internal.InFlightMetadataCollectorImpl.processSecondPasses(InFlightMetadataCollectorImpl.java:1665)
at org.hibernate.boot.internal.InFlightMetadataCollectorImpl.processSecondPasses(InFlightMetadataCollectorImpl.java:1640)
at org.hibernate.boot.internal.MetadataBuildingProcess.build(MetadataBuildingProcess.java:282)
at org.hibernate.boot.internal.MetadataBuilderImpl.build(MetadataBuilderImpl.java:396)
at org.hibernate.boot.internal.MetadataBuilderImpl.build(MetadataBuilderImpl.java:82)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:692)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:724)

A test case:
table A
int id (PK)

table B
int id (PK)

table C
int id (PK)
int idB (FK to B.id) (PK)

table D
int idA (FK to A.id) (PK)
int idC (FK to C.id) (PK)

table E
int idA (FK to A.id) (PK)
int idB (FK to B.id) (PK)

class E{
@OneToMany
@JoinColumnsOrFormulas(

)
Set<D> ds = new HashSet<>();
}