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I didn't expect that we were hitting this code path but it now makes sense that we are. Thanks for debugging this! By the way, the list should contain the two providers (since they are both available for use). It looks like the first provider (should be org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider) is returning LoadState.UNKNOWN, so we try the second provider in the list (should be org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence).

// from javax.persistence.Persistence.isLoaded()
public boolean isLoaded(Object entity, String attributeName) {
	List<PersistenceProvider> providers = Persistence.getProviders();
	for ( PersistenceProvider provider : providers ) {
		final LoadState state = provider.getProviderUtil().isLoadedWithoutReference( entity, attributeName );
		if ( state == LoadState.UNKNOWN ) continue;
		return state == LoadState.LOADED;
	}
	for ( PersistenceProvider provider : providers ) {
		final LoadState state = provider.getProviderUtil().isLoadedWithReference( entity, attributeName );
		if ( state == LoadState.UNKNOWN ) continue;
		return state == LoadState.LOADED;
	}
	return true;
}

// From class org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.resolver.JPATraversableResolver
public final boolean isReachable(Object traversableObject,
    Path.Node traversableProperty,
    Class<?> rootBeanType,
    Path pathToTraversableObject,
    ElementType elementType) {
if ( log.isTraceEnabled() ) {
	log.tracef(
			"Calling isReachable on object %s with node name %s.",
			traversableObject,
			traversableProperty.getName()
	);
}

if ( traversableObject == null ) {
	return true;
}
return Persistence.getPersistenceUtil().isLoaded( traversableObject, traversableProperty.getName() );
}