[ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1614?page=c... ] Hontvári József commented on HHH-1614: -------------------------------------- Now I debugged the code in 3.2.2. and also checked if trunk is the same (yes). The parent field is hadled separately from other properties in the component. PojoComponentTuplizer constructor calls PropertyAccessorFactory.getPropertyAccessor( null ). Note the null parameter, which should be the type of access (i.e. field; getter/setter; etc.). This method (which has a comment: "todo : this eventually needs to be removed"), considers null as if "property" were supplied and returns a BASIC_PROPERTY_ACCESSOR, which according to its document only uses getters/setters. I guess, for field access, instead of null the value "field" should be passed, so it would return a DIRECT_PROPERTY_ACCESSOR -- 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