diff --git a/documentation/manual/src/main/docbook/en-US/content/configuration.xml b/documentation/manual/src/main/docbook/en-US/content/configuration.xml
index 8b73de214d..f71a7365da 100644
--- a/documentation/manual/src/main/docbook/en-US/content/configuration.xml
+++ b/documentation/manual/src/main/docbook/en-US/content/configuration.xml
@@ -1347,6 +1347,48 @@ hibernate.dialect = org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect
applications.
+
+ Implementing a PersisterClassProvider
+
+ You can configure the persister implementation used to persist your
+ entities and collections:
+
+
+
+ by default, Hibernate uses persisters that make sense in a
+ relational model and follow Java Persistence's specification
+
+
+
+ you can define a PersisterClassProvider
+ implementation that provides the persister class used of a given
+ entity or collection
+
+
+
+ finally, you can override them on a per entity and collection
+ basis in the mapping using @Persister or its
+ XML equivalent
+
+
+
+ The latter in the list the higher in priority.
+
+ You can pass the PersisterClassProvider
+ instance to the Configuration object.
+
+ SessionFactory sf = new Configuration()
+ .setPersisterClassProvider(customPersisterClassProvider)
+ .addAnnotatedClass(Order.class)
+ .buildSessionFactory();
+
+ The persister class provider methods, when returning a non null
+ persister class, override the default Hibernate persisters. The entity
+ name or the collection role are passed to the methods. It is a nice way to
+ centralize the overriding logic of the persisters instead of spreading
+ them on each entity or collection mapping.
+
+