JPA and Hibernate initialize Non Lazy Collections Error

Question

In my JavaFX application When I use Non Lazy Collection option with EmbeddedId class, for maintain bidirectional relation ship it will produce following excepti

Answer 1

Excerpt from JPA 2.0 Specification, chapter 11.1.38 OrderBy Annotation:

The dot (".") notation is used to refer to an attribute within an embedded attribute. The value of each identifier used with the dot notation is the nameof the respective embedded field or property.

so you should rather annotate workflowStepList with:

@OrderBy(value = "id.stepSeqNo")
private List workflowStepList;

thus indicating that stepSeqNo belongs to WorkflowStep embeddable.