I'm shifting over to 5.4.x and since this issue hasn't been accepted/declined, I'm back to patching the mentioned approach back in again.

The two classes shown above have changed only slightly (MetadataBuildingOptions -> BootstrapContext) so patching itself was quite trivial, but I find the comment below a bit disturbing.

Could you please take the bytecode enhancing need for XML into account in the Jandex approach, because this is and will be a blocker issue for me and I feels like my approach or some simple alternative to it will not be then possible anymore.

	/**
	 * Retrieve the Hibernate Commons Annotations ReflectionManager to use.
	 *
	 * @return The Hibernate Commons Annotations ReflectionManager to use.
	 *
	 * @deprecated Deprecated (with no replacement) to indicate that this will go away as
	 * we migrate away from Hibernate Commons Annotations to Jandex for annotation handling
	 * and XMl->annotation merging.
	 */
	@Deprecated
	ReflectionManager getReflectionManager();