Aleksei M ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?accountId=5f27df8... ) *created* an issue Hibernate ORM ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiNzFhMDgwODVm... ) / Bug ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-14136?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiNzFhMD... ) HHH-14136 ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-14136?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiNzFhMD... ) Hibernate 6.00 alpha5 NPE during entitymanager factory init ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-14136?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiNzFhMD... ) Issue Type: Bug Assignee: Unassigned Created: 03/Aug/2020 03:59 AM Priority: Major Reporter: Aleksei M ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?accountId=5f27df8... ) Adding jpa with hibernate as peovider to my simple project (without Spring or any other DI containers) and H2 database got stuck with NPE. See description here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63202449/npe-during-entitimanagerfact... Steps to reproduce: 1. Adding dependencies to maven project: <dependency> <groupId>com.h2database</groupId> <artifactId>h2</artifactId> <version>1.4.200</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId> <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId> <version>6.0.0.Alpha5</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.hibernate.javax.persistence</groupId> <artifactId>hibernate-jpa-2.1-api</artifactId> <version>1.0.2.Final</version> </dependency> 2)Standart jpa configuration. 3) Instantiating enitiymanager factory , instantiate entity manager, begin transaction. Expected result: console loggs and successful application execution. Actual result: null pointer exception during EMF initialisation. Full stack trace here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63202449/npe-during-entitimanagerfact... ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-14136#add-comment?atlOrigin=ey... ) Add Comment ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-14136#add-comment?atlOrigin=ey... ) Get Jira notifications on your phone! Download the Jira Cloud app for Android ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atlassian.android.jira.... ) or iOS ( https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1006972087?pt=696495&ct=Em... ) This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v1001.0.0-SNAPSHOT#100141- sha1:e1d49c9 )