ElementCollection not updated correctly if the Embeddable component has a nullable property

I have an @ElementCollection that is a collection of @Embeddable components. When saving an updated entity I can see that Hibernate issues an SQL DELETE for each of the rows in the collection followed by an INSERT, as is expected behaviour for an @ElementCollection.

The rows are deleted using a where clause that includes all the properties of the @Embeddabkle component. With MySQL the DELETE fails to delete any rows where the property is a nullable property and the previous value was null.

This is because Hibernate issues a prepared SQL ststement like "DELETE FROM tableName t where t.a = ? and t.b = ?" now if b is a nullable property and the component being saved has a null value for b then the delete will fail.

To correctly delete the row with MySQL the statement should be "DELETE FROM tableName t where t.a = ? and t.b is null"