Hibernate doesn't fully comply with the JavaBean 1.01 spec ---------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-984 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-984 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Components: core Affects Versions: 3.0.5 Reporter: Oliver Siegmar Priority: Minor I already reported this bug at http://opensource2.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-755, but Gavin closed it with the comment, that Hibernate would comply with the JavaBean spec, but that's not true. Consider a property 'fooDate', the getter would be 'getFooDate'. Now consider a property 'gDate', the getter would be? Right, 'getGDate' - but Hibernate looks for a 'getgDate' because of the property find algorithms in two methods: setterMethod() and getterMethod() of BasicPropertyAccessor.java. Just calling Introspector.decapitalize() isn't enough to comply the spec fully. The first action within setterMethod() and getterMethod() should be to capitalize the first letter of propertyName, then the comparison with the found setter/getter would succeed. BTW: Eclipse creates a getGDate() and setGDate() for a property gDate - this is how I noticed the problem.