The DerbyDialect deprecation warning should appear no more, when using one of the version-specific dialects ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: HHH-7059 URL: https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-7059 Project: Hibernate ORM Issue Type: Improvement Components: core Affects Versions: 4.1.0, 4.0.1 Reporter: Guenther Demetz Priority: Minor Althoug setting a version=specific derby dialect config.setProperty("hibernate.dialect","org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyTenSevenDialect"); following warning log appears: @LogMessage(level = WARN) @Message(value = "The DerbyDialect dialect has been deprecated; use one of the version-specific dialects instead", id = 430) This is because currently all versioned DerbyDialects are extending from deprecated super class DerbyDialect and the constructor of the super class does produce this warning logging regardsless of which concrete type the dialect is. public DerbyDialect() { super(); LOG.deprecatedDerbyDialect(); ... } Please see also: https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=1014416 -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira