Hi,
I am facing the same issue in the hibernate 4.2.2 release.
as per comments , it is fixed in 3..5.3. so is it broken again?
i can see the following code for the getHolderInstantiator method.

static private HolderInstantiator getHolderInstantiator(ResultTransformer resultTransformer, String[] queryReturnAliases) {
if ( resultTransformer == null )

else

}