Multiple component mappings for the same java class with different property mappings is not supported anymore. Every property mapping combination should have its own java class"
Passing null or not is now triggered by whether setting the parameter was called at all. In other ords a distinction is made between calling `setParameter` passing null versus not calling `setParameter` at all. In the first case, we pass along the null value; in the second we do not.
** 'hibernate.classLoader.application', 'hibernate.classLoader.resources', 'hibernate.classLoader.hibernate' and 'hibernate.classLoader.environment': use 'hibernate.classLoaders' instead.
** 'hibernate.hbm2dll.create_namespaces': use 'jakarta.persistence.create-database-schemas' or 'hibernate.hbm2ddl.create_namespaces'
We changed the way we detect circularity, we do not follow anymore a deep first detection, so what happens is that in a model like
```
@Entity
class Node {
@ManyToOne
Node node1;
@ManyToOne
Node node2;
}
```
being all eager we are executing a query with 4 joins
```
FROM Node
JOIN Node.node1
JOIN Node.node1.node2
JOIN Node.node2
JOIN Node.node2.node1
```
whereas before we
```
FROM Node
JOIN Node.node1
JOIN Node.node1.node2
```
and issue a select for `Node.node2` if the FK of `Node.node2` is not null
```
FROM Node.node2
JOIN Node.node2.node1
JOIN Node.node2.node1.node2
```
In this simple example this is not such a big deal, but if we increase the number of eager fetched self-associations
to e.g. 3 like here:
```
@Entity
class Node {
@ManyToOne
Node node1;
@ManyToOne
Node node2;
@ManyToOne
Node node3;
}
```
this results in mind-blowing 15 joins
```
FROM Node
JOIN Node.node1
JOIN Node.node1.node2
JOIN Node.node1.node2.node3
JOIN Node.node1.node3
JOIN Node.node1.node3.node2
JOIN Node.node2
JOIN Node.node2.node1
JOIN Node.node2.node1.node3
JOIN Node.node2.node3
JOIN Node.node2.node3.node1
JOIN Node.node3
JOIN Node.node3.node1
JOIN Node.node3.node1.node2
JOIN Node.node3.node2
JOIN Node.node3.node2.node1
```
as you can see, this leads to a lot of joins very quickly, but the behavior of 5.x simply was not intuitive.
To avoid creating so many joins, and also in general, we recommend that you use lazy fetching i.e. `@ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)`
or `@OneToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)` for most associations, but this is especially important if you have multiple self-referencing associations as you can see in the example.
