Unable to join across a component --------------------------------- Key: HHH-4883 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-4883 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Components: core, entity-manager, query-criteria, query-hql Reporter: Steve Ebersole Assignee: Steve Ebersole Fix For: 3.5.0-Next Time Spent: 1 hour, 1 minute Remaining Estimate: 0 minutes If Address is a component with a many-to-one with country, then the following hql results in invalid sql: from Person p join p.address a join a.country c where c.name is null The c.name is render as if the sql join had been rendered, which is correct. However, the fragment "join a.country c" does not result in the physical sql join being produced which is incorrect. See org.hibernate.test.annotations.embedded.many2one.EmbeddableWithMany2OneTest#testJoinAcrossEmbedded as example