Interested in this. Please note that when mixing “new style” plugin declarations with “old style” plugin declarations, the buildscript block must appear before the plugins block, then apply plugin: ‘org.hibernate.orm’ can appear after the plugins block.

I think the documentation at https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/5.4/userguide/html_single/Hibernate_User_Guide.html#BytecodeEnhancement-enhancement-gradle should be enhanced for this.