Mac OS x Mountain Lion, Jdk 1.6. Where it seems to be going wrong is
AnnotationMetadataProvider => checkForIndexedEmbedded. In the cases where I don't get the embedded element parsed, there are no includePaths specified and I see that
isMaxLevelReached always returns true and the updatedPathsContext is always empty, also returning false. This seems to he a heavily refactored area, so. If you want me to look at anything in my environment you'll have to ask specific questions.