An embeddable list is not populated when using Envers with Hibernate in JBoss EAP

Environment

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

Issue

• An @Embeddable "MyEmbeddable" is defined to include an optional/nullable @JoinColumn
• An entity is defined with a List<MyEmbeddable> property
• The Envers AuditReader fails to populate the List with values when the embeddable's join column property is null

Resolution

This issue is resolved as part of:

• This content is not included.EAP 7.1 cumulative patch (CP) 1¹
• This content is not included.EAP 7.0 cumulative patch (CP) 9²

Root Cause

This is a known defect (Content from hibernate.atlassian.net is not included.HHH-11364).

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