@Entity
@Table
public class EntityA {
   @Id
   @Column(name = "ID")
   private Integer id;
   ...
}

@Entity
@Table
public class EntityB {
   @Id
   @ManyToOne(targetEntity = EntityA.class)
   @JoinColumn(name = "ID")
   private EntityA id;
   ...
}

@Entity
@Table
public class EntityC {
   @Id
   @ManyToOne(targetEntity = EntityB.class)
   @JoinColumn(name = "ID")
   private EntityB id;
   ...
}

Caused by: A Foreign key refering EntityB from EntityC has the wrong number of column. should be 0
   at org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.TableBinder.bindFk(TableBinder.java:432)
   at org.hibernate.cfg.ToOneFkSecondPass.doSecondPass(ToOneFkSecondPass.java:117)
   at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.processEndOfQueue(Configuration.java:1514)
   at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.processFkSecondPassInOrder(Configuration.java:1437)
   at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.secondPassCompile(Configuration.java:1355)
   at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1724)
   at org.hibernate.ejb.EntityManagerFactoryImpl.<init>(EntityManagerFactoryImpl.java:84)
   at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:904)
   ... 10 more