Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1
   at org.hibernate.persister.collection.AbstractCollectionPersister.initCollectionPropertyMap(AbstractCollectionPersister.java:1736)
   at org.hibernate.persister.collection.AbstractCollectionPersister.initCollectionPropertyMap(AbstractCollectionPersister.java:1712)
   at org.hibernate.persister.collection.AbstractCollectionPersister.<init>(AbstractCollectionPersister.java:600)
   at org.hibernate.persister.collection.BasicCollectionPersister.<init>(BasicCollectionPersister.java:74)
   at org.hibernate.persister.PersisterFactory.createCollectionPersister(PersisterFactory.java:104)
   at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:318)
   at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1385)
   at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.buildSessionFactory(AnnotationConfiguration.java:954)
   at com.rtrms.hibernate.View.main(View.java:46)

package com.rtrms.hibernate;

import java.util.List;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.ElementCollection;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.JoinColumn;
import javax.persistence.JoinTable;
import javax.persistence.Table;

import org.apache.log4j.BasicConfigurator;
import org.hibernate.annotations.Cascade;
import org.hibernate.annotations.CascadeType;
import org.hibernate.annotations.IndexColumn;
import org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Environment;
import org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect;
import org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver;

@Entity
@Table(name = "VIEW")
public class View {
   
    @Id
    @Column(name = "ID")
    protected Long id;
   
    @JoinTable(name = "VIEW_COLUMN", joinColumns = { @JoinColumn(name = "VIEW_ID") })
    @ElementCollection
    @IndexColumn(name = "COLUMN_INDEX")
    @Cascade(CascadeType.ALL)
    private List<ViewColumn> columns;
   
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        BasicConfigurator.configure();
       
        Configuration config = new AnnotationConfiguration().addAnnotatedClass(View.class).addAnnotatedClass(FilterImpl.class);
        config.setProperty(Environment.DIALECT, HSQLDialect.class.getName());
        config.setProperty(Environment.DRIVER, jdbcDriver.class.getName());
        config.setProperty(Environment.URL, "jdbc:hsqldb:mem:testDB;shutdown=true");
        config.setProperty(Environment.USER, "SA");
        config.setProperty(Environment.PASS, "");
        config.buildSessionFactory();
    }
}

package com.rtrms.hibernate;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Embeddable;
import javax.persistence.Embedded;

@Embeddable
public class ViewColumn {
   
    @Column(name = "NAME")
    private String name;
   
    @Embedded
    private ColumnProperties properties = new ColumnProperties();
   
}

package com.rtrms.hibernate;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Embeddable;
import javax.persistence.FetchType;
import javax.persistence.JoinColumn;
import javax.persistence.ManyToOne;

import org.hibernate.annotations.Target;
import org.hibernate.annotations.Type;

@Embeddable
public class ColumnProperties {
   
    @Column(name = "CONFIGURATION")
    @Type(type = "text")
    private String configuration;
   
    @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
    @JoinColumn(name = "FILTER_ID")
    @Target(FilterImpl.class)
    private Filter filter;
   
}   

package com.rtrms.hibernate;

public interface Filter {
   
    public void accept(ViewColumn column);
}

package com.rtrms.hibernate;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.Table;

@Entity
@Table(name = "FILTER")
public class FilterImpl implements Filter {
   
    @Id
    @Column(name = "ID")
    protected Long id;
   
    @Override
    public void accept(ViewColumn column) {
    }
   
}