Agreed. Valerie : not sure if it was clarified to you, but we don't like this either.

This specific boostrap method is required to behave like that by the JPA specification. So if you are booting Hibernate ORM using the bootstrap method which is meant for JPA integration, that's how it must behave.

You appear to be bootstrapping Hibernate ORM with your own code. In that case like Steve suggested there are other ways to boot it which should behave in more reasonable way, and also happen to give access to many more features.