ReflectHelper.classForName() blocking in Hibernate

Environment

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

Issue

• Code in ReflectHelper.classForName() may generate exceptions when attempting to load HQL tokens which are not classes
• Blocking to create stack traces for ClassNotFoundException may impact performance in some cases:
  • In cases where entity manager factories or session factories are recreated frequently
  • In cases where there are thousands of distinct HQL queries

Resolution

This issue is resolved as part of:

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

Root Cause

• This is a known defect (Content from hibernate.atlassian.net is not included.HHH-4959).

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