Like I said, I was not able to get this to work with annotations using any versions of Hibernate. And I went back pretty far. I went back as far as org.hibernate:hibernate-entitymanager:3.2.0.ga which is even further back than you use. And in no version I tried did this ever work.

Anyway, I fixed it yesterday. GIve it is a try. The solution is not ideal, but I think it is the best we can do until I get the time to completely revamp annotation binding.