I recently found out that Hibernate filters do not work in many-to-many associations (and similar using join tables) . At least that is the case in 3.1.3. The issue is described in this bug report:

http://opensource.atlassian.com/project ... se/HHH-229

However it has been marked as closed and as a duplicate of another report. Does anybody know which the "primary" report for this issue is ? The report says that this is a top-priority issue that was supposed to be fixed in 3.0.1. I looked in the code and it didn't seem easy to fix.

if there isn't another report, perhaps I should submit a new one ?

I am faced with same issue did you file another bug report.