I won't prepare a Test Case as I'm pretty sure this feature will never be supported. It was broken a long time ago, even with the old annotation (https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HCANN-48).

However, there is a workaround for anyone who needs custom property getters and setters that seems to be fully supported. A custom PojoEntityTuplizer and @Tuplizer annotation will do the job.

So I think the solution is to deprecate @AttributeAccessor and update the docs to state that it performs no function (to save people from spending days trying to get it to work) and point them towards PojoEntityTuplizer and @Tuplizer.