Created attachment 996264 [details]
Simple Maven based pure-hibernate test

Description of problem:
When using join fetch for an association that is part of an @Embeddable, the association is not joined or fetched

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Hibernate 4.2.x

How reproducible:
Consistently

Steps to Reproduce:
root.fetch(ParentEntity_.embedded).fetch(EmbeddedEntity_.children);

Actual results:
The root class is fetched. The SQL shows no join and subsequent access to the association results in an implicit database query.

Expected results:
The assocation should be join fetched

Additional info:
Test seems to conform to the example in http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/4.2/devguide/en-US/html/ch12.html#querycriteria-from-fetch