"HHH90000016: Found use of deprecated 'collection property' syntax in HQL/JPQL query [null.elements]" in Hibernate 5

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Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7
  • Hibernate 5

Issue

  • HHH90000016: Found use of deprecated 'collection property' syntax in HQL/JPQL query ... WARN messages logged

Resolution

This issue is Content from issues.jboss.org is not included.resolved in cumulative patch (CP) 6 and later for EAP 7.0.

Root Cause

There is a known defect (Content from hibernate.atlassian.net is not included.HHH-11400) in certain versions of Hibernate when using the following in JPA and legacy (non-JPA) Hibernate queries:

  • member of <collection>
  • size(<collection>)
  • elements (<collection>)
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