The code snippets here[1] advice the user to use com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.Point. I have just spent a good few hours searching for an answer for why my point-column in MySQL8 can't be de-serialized properly, until I read the 4th paragraph of the overview in the documentation that says that Geolatte is "the latest and greatest".

Is there any reason behind using JTS in the example instead of Geolatte? From my point of view as a consumer of the library it would make more sense to provide an example using Geolatte instead.

[1] https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/current/userguide/html_single/Hibernate_User_Guide.html#spatial-types