I have experence a problem while mapping a legacy database when I am attempt to use @ManyToOne using @JoinTable and the parent class is declaired with @Inheritance(strategy=InheritanceType.JOINED). Here is a simplified version of what I am attempting:

@Entity
@Inheritance(strategy=InheritanceType.JOINED)
@Table(name = "baseclass")
public abstract class Baseclass implements java.io.Serializable {

 private String internalid;

 @Id
 @Column(name = "INTERNALID", unique = true, nullable = false, insertable = true, updatable = true, length = 34)
 public String getInternalid() {
 return this.internalid;
 }
 public void setInternalid(String internalid) {
 this.internalid = internalid;
 }
}

@Entity
@Table(name = "parent")
public class Parent extends Baseclass
{

 private String name;

 public String getName(){
 return this.name;
 }
 public void setName(String name){
 this.name = name;
 }
}

@Entity
@Table(name = "child")
public class Child implements java.io.Serializable {

 private String internalid;
 private String name;
 private Parent parent;

 @Id
 @Column(name = "INTERNALID", unique = true, nullable = false, insertable = true, updatable = true, length = 34)
 public String getInternalid() {
 return this.internalid;
 }
 public void setInternalid(String internalid) {
 this.internalid = internalid;
 }

 public String getName(){
 return this.name;
 }
 public void setName(String name){
 this.name = name;
 }

 @ManyToOne(cascade = {CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.MERGE})
 @JoinTable(name="hierarchy",
 joinColumns = @JoinColumn( name="childinternalid"),
 inverseJoinColumns = @JoinColumn( name="parentinternalid"))
 public Parent getParent(){
 return this.parent;
 }
 public void setParent(Parent parent){
 this.parent = parent;
 }
}

When I try this in JBOSSAS4.0.4GA I receive the following error:

14:24:09,268 ERROR [AssertionFailure] an assertion failure occured (this may indicate a bug in Hiber
nate, but is more likely due to unsafe use of the session)
org.hibernate.AssertionFailure: Table hierarchy not found
 at org.hibernate.persister.entity.JoinedSubclassEntityPersister.getTableId(JoinedSubclassEntityPers
ister.java:444)
 at org.hibernate.persister.entity.JoinedSubclassEntityPersister.<init>(JoinedSubclassEntityPersister.java:225)
 at org.hibernate.persister.PersisterFactory.createClassPersister(PersisterFactory.java:58)
 at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:223)
 at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1213)
 at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:631)
 at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.createEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:760)
 at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.createContainerEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:3
50)
 at org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.createContainerEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistence.
java:119)
 at org.jboss.ejb3.entity.PersistenceUnitDeployment.start(PersistenceUnitDeployment.java:264)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)

...

If I switch the association to @OneToMany on the parent side there is no error.

I have also experenced this same error using bidirectional @OneToOne with an association table where either end is using @Inheritance(strategy=InheritanceType.JOINED), and if I make it unidirectional on the end without @Inheritance(strategy=InheritanceType.JOINED) it does not throw the error.

I'm not sure what I am doing incorrectly.