Oh, that's embarassing . Verified it works on 5.0.8 with the typo corrected. However, both the profile for 4.2 (hibernate-42) and 4.3 (hibernate-43) make the tests fail. We currently still build Spring Data against 3.6 even, which I think is out of maintenance. Any chance you can back-port the fix into a 4.x release (4.2 preferred).