Thanks for stepping up and submitting the patch! Question though: if we rename the instance variables in the child and that's all, then injection will fail because the parent entity home component name won't match the instance variable names anymore. So corresponding @Role's would need to be added on the parent home entity with the new names - for each field from each class that references it. Does your patch handle this case? Turns out my schema is worst case here - many child tables reference the same parent table, some with multiple fk's to the parent in the same table. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4041005#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...