Hi Team! In previous Hibernate versions, we used our CustomEntityPersister (s) to implement additional logic for the Insert and Update operations. In the Hibernate 7 migration guide, I see that only this annotation was removed without any alternatives. What is the reason for removing it? Perhaps…

To implement additional logic for the Insert and Update operations. Possibly, there is a better way to do this. But now we just want to know if my assumption with PersisterClassResolver will work?

Like I answered in the thread I linked, using a PersisterClassResolver will work. Can you please share what additional logic you need to do so we actually now the use cases. Making it harder to replace persisters was done because they touch so many internals and it’s unreasonable for a user to imple…

In Hibernate 7 @Persister Annotation was removed. What is the alternative?

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beikov January 9, 2026, 2:53pm 2

A somewhat related question was asked in the past, but the real question is, why do you need a custom persister?

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In Hibernate 7 @Persister Annotation was removed. What is the alternative?

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