Inherited relationships not found in collections of subclasses of the entity containing the relationship -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: ANN-615 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-615 Project: Hibernate Annotations Issue Type: Bug Components: binder Reporter: Michael Newcomb Consider: @Entity public class A { @Id @GeneratedValue protected int id; @OneToMany(mappedBy = "a") protected Collection<C> c; } @Entity public abstract class B { @Id @GeneratedValue protected int id; @ManyToOne protected A a; } @Entity public class C extends B { } Gives the following errors upon deployment: Caused by: org.hibernate.AnnotationException: mappedBy reference an unknown target entity property: com.gd.iewtpt.isi.C.a in com.gd.iewtpt.isi.A.c at org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.CollectionBinder.bindStarToManySecondPass(CollectionBinder.java:552) at org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.CollectionBinder$1.secondPass(CollectionBinder.java:517) at org.hibernate.cfg.CollectionSecondPass.doSecondPass(CollectionSecondPass.java:43) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.secondPassCompile(Configuration.java:1130) at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.secondPassCompile(AnnotationConfiguration.java:316) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildMappings(Configuration.java:1115) at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildMappings(Ejb3Configuration.java:1269) at org.hibernate.ejb.EventListenerConfigurator.configure(EventListenerConfigurator.java:150) at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.configure(Ejb3Configuration.java:888) at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.configure(Ejb3Configuration.java:186) at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.configure(Ejb3Configuration.java:246) ... 7 more I can get around this issue, but it seems there is a bug here... -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira