diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/metamodel/internal/source/annotations/entity/TableSourceImpl.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/metamodel/internal/source/annotations/entity/TableSourceImpl.java
index 20702da07e..f1ac5f13f9 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/metamodel/internal/source/annotations/entity/TableSourceImpl.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/metamodel/internal/source/annotations/entity/TableSourceImpl.java
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ class TableSourceImpl implements TableSource {
 		this.schema = schema;
 		this.catalog = catalog;
 		// for some reason annotations passing in "" sometimes :(
-		this.tableName = tableName.equals( "" ) ? null : tableName;
+		this.tableName = "".equals( tableName ) ? null : tableName;
 	}
 
 	@Override