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(grails-core) 01/01: feat: GORM O(M+N) scaling — Hibernate 7 adapter wiring and child datastore init

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commit 14e6ca27efc20098e694924b9614c8d98327d267
Author: Walter Duque de Estrada <wb...@mac.com>
AuthorDate: Fri Jun 26 16:03:01 2026 -0500

    feat: GORM O(M+N) scaling — Hibernate 7 adapter wiring and child datastore init
    
    Wires Hibernate 7 to the new GormRegistry with correct child datastore
    initialization order, fixing the gaps that PR #15771 intentionally deferred:
    
    - HibernateDatastore (H7): registers child datastores with GormRegistry eagerly
      during initialization, preserving schema/database/datasource routing
    - HibernateGormInstanceApi: use getHibernateTemplate() lazy getter for
      isAttached(), lock(), and attach() — factory constructor leaves the field null
    - HibernateGormStaticApi: executeQuery(query, Map) passes params as both named
      params and query settings so max/offset pagination is applied
    - HibernateSession: coerceId() converts String IDs to the entity's declared
      identifier type in retrieveAll(), fixing String→Long lookup mismatch
    - HibernateGormEnhancerSpec: updated to use GormRegistry public API
    - HibernateDirtyCheckingSpec / HibernateUpdateFromListenerSpec: local Person
      renamed to DirtyCheckPerson to avoid DuplicateMappingException with TCK
    - grails-test-examples/hibernate7: demo33 UniqueConstraintOnHasOneSpec
      @NotYetImplemented removed (test now passes); GormAdvancedSpec pagination fixed
    - grails-data-hibernate7-core GormApiAllocationSpec: verifies O(M+N) API count
      across single-datasource, multi-datasource, and multi-tenant configurations
    
    Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <no...@anthropic.com>
---
 grails-data-hibernate7/ISSUES.md                   |  21 +
 .../grails/gorm/hibernate/HibernateEntity.groovy   |  55 +-
 .../groovy/grails/orm/CriteriaMethodInvoker.java   |   4 +-
 .../orm/hibernate/ChildHibernateDatastore.java     | 123 +++-
 .../orm/hibernate/GrailsHibernateTemplate.java     |  64 +-
 .../GrailsHibernateTransactionManager.groovy       |  68 +-
 .../grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateDatastore.java   | 198 +++++-
 .../orm/hibernate/HibernateGormApiFactory.groovy   |  74 +++
 .../orm/hibernate/HibernateGormEnhancer.groovy     |  73 +--
 .../orm/hibernate/HibernateGormInstanceApi.groovy  | 673 ++++++++++++--------
 .../orm/hibernate/HibernateGormStaticApi.groovy    | 694 +++++++++++++--------
 .../hibernate/HibernateGormValidationApi.groovy    |  50 +-
 .../org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateSession.java | 145 ++++-
 .../orm/hibernate/HibernateSessionResolver.groovy  |  88 +++
 .../orm/hibernate/SchemaTenantGormEnhancer.java    |   6 +-
 .../hibernate/TenantBoundHibernateTemplate.groovy  | 170 +++++
 .../orm/hibernate/cfg/GrailsHibernateUtil.java     |  10 +-
 .../orm/hibernate/cfg/HibernateMappingContext.java |   4 +-
 .../cfg/HibernateMappingContextConfiguration.java  |  13 +-
 .../domainbinding/binder/GrailsDomainBinder.java   |   2 +-
 .../dirty/GrailsEntityDirtinessStrategy.groovy     |  77 ++-
 .../event/listener/HibernateEventListener.java     |   2 +-
 .../multitenancy/MultiTenantEventListener.java     |   6 +-
 .../orm/hibernate/query/HibernateHqlQuery.java     |  97 +++
 .../grails/orm/hibernate/query/HibernateQuery.java |  39 +-
 .../orm/hibernate/query/HqlListQueryBuilder.java   |  22 +
 .../orm/hibernate/query/HqlQueryContext.java       |   6 +-
 .../hibernate/query/JpaCriteriaQueryCreator.java   |   3 +-
 .../orm/hibernate/query/PagedResultList.java       | 148 +++++
 .../grails/orm/hibernate/query/SelectHqlQuery.java |  93 ++-
 .../hibernate/support/ClosureEventListener.java    |  37 +-
 .../support/ClosureEventTriggeringInterceptor.java |  62 +-
 .../GormAutoTimestampFlushEntityEventListener.java | 125 ++++
 .../hibernate/support/HibernateRuntimeUtils.groovy |  27 +
 .../gorm/tests/HibernateGormDatastoreSpec.groovy   |   5 +
 .../gorm/tests/HibernatePagedResultListSpec.groovy |  16 +-
 .../grails/gorm/tests/PagedResultListSpec.groovy   |   7 +-
 ...WithNewSessionAndExistingTransactionSpec.groovy |  23 +-
 .../HibernateDirtyCheckingSpec.groovy              |  22 +-
 .../HibernateUpdateFromListenerSpec.groovy         |  12 +-
 .../tests/hibernatequery/HibernateQuerySpec.groovy |  46 ++
 .../gorm/tests/services/DataServiceSpec.groovy     |  12 +-
 .../tests/validation/UniqueWithinGroupSpec.groovy  |   3 +-
 .../core/GrailsDataHibernate7TckManager.groovy     |  46 +-
 .../tck/tests/PagedResultSpecHibernate.groovy      |   8 +-
 .../datastore/gorm/GormEnhancerCleanupSpec.groovy  |  46 +-
 .../ChildHibernateDatastoreUnitSpec.groovy         |  73 +++
 .../hibernate/GormRegistryScalabilitySpec.groovy   | 240 +++++++
 .../HibernateDatastoreIntegrationSpec.groovy       |   1 +
 .../hibernate/HibernateGormApiFactorySpec.groovy   |  51 ++
 .../orm/hibernate/HibernateGormEnhancerSpec.groovy |  12 +-
 .../hibernate/HibernateGormInstanceApiSpec.groovy  |   7 +-
 .../hibernate/HibernateGormStaticApiSpec.groovy    |  10 +-
 .../HibernateGormValidationApiSpec.groovy          |   4 +-
 .../orm/hibernate/HibernateSessionSpec.groovy      |  43 ++
 .../HibernateTenantContextProfilingSpec.groovy     | 111 ++++
 .../hibernate/SchemaTenantGormEnhancerSpec.groovy  |   1 -
 .../DataServiceMultiDataSourceSpec.groovy          |  17 +-
 .../MultipleDataSourcesWithEventsSpec.groovy       |   8 +-
 .../connections/SchemaMultiTenantSpec.groovy       |  33 +-
 .../hibernate/connections/SingleTenantSpec.groovy  |  37 +-
 .../WhereQueryMultiDataSourceSpec.groovy           |   4 +-
 .../orm/hibernate/query/HqlQueryContextSpec.groovy |   2 +-
 .../support/ClosureEventListenerSpec.groovy        |   2 +-
 .../HibernateTransactionManagerSpec.groovy         | 192 ++++++
 .../src/test/resources/simplelogger.properties     |   1 +
 grails-data-hibernate7/docs/build.gradle           |   2 +-
 .../GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.java        |   4 +-
 ...bernatePersistenceContextInterceptorSpec.groovy |  23 +-
 .../hibernate7/HibernateTransactionManager.java    |  15 +-
 .../demo/UniqueConstraintOnHasOneSpec.groovy       |   4 +-
 .../grails-app/conf/logback.xml                    |   6 +-
 .../services/example/AnotherBookService.groovy     |   4 +-
 .../DatabasePerTenantIntegrationSpec.groovy        |   4 +-
 .../services/example/MetricService.groovy          |   3 +-
 75 files changed, 3514 insertions(+), 925 deletions(-)

diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/ISSUES.md b/grails-data-hibernate7/ISSUES.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d3ad0f64e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/ISSUES.md
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Hibernate 7 O(M+N) Scaling and Performance
+
+## Context
+Hibernate 7 integration in GORM 8 introduces a modern persistence baseline. The O(M+N) scaling work ensures that multi-tenant applications remain efficient as the number of tenants grows.
+
+## Implemented and Validated
+
+### Datastore integration aligned to shared model
+- Primary target for the shared-registry architecture refactor.
+- Updated all API entry points to leverage centralized lookups and normalized keys.
+
+### Query and session behavior hardening
+- Comprehensive refactor of query paths to reduce allocation churn.
+- [DONE] Refactor `JpaCriteriaQueryCreator` to inject `PredicateGenerator` (eliminated redundant object churn).
+
+### Verification
+- Added `HibernateTenantContextProfilingSpec` to measure tenant wrapping overhead.
+- Integrated `GormRegistryScalabilitySpec` to ensure linear (or better) scaling with entity and tenant counts.
+
+## Potential Optimization Opportunities
+- Further tracing of JpaCriteria query construction to identify remaining minor allocation hotspots.
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/grails/gorm/hibernate/HibernateEntity.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/grails/gorm/hibernate/HibernateEntity.groovy
index edcdca57b8..c85676f784 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/grails/gorm/hibernate/HibernateEntity.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/grails/gorm/hibernate/HibernateEntity.groovy
@@ -20,11 +20,10 @@ package grails.gorm.hibernate
 
 import groovy.transform.CompileStatic
 import groovy.transform.Generated
-
 import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper
 
-import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormEnhancer
 import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormEntity
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentEntity
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.types.Association
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.types.ToOne
@@ -40,6 +39,56 @@ import org.grails.orm.hibernate.HibernateGormStaticApi
 @CompileStatic
 trait HibernateEntity<D> extends GormEntity<D> {
 
+    /**
+     * Finds all objects for the given native SQL query. Pass a GString to have interpolated
+     * values safely bound as named parameters rather than interpolated into the query string.
+     *
+     * @param sql The native SQL query
+     * @return The matching objects
+     */
+    @Generated
+    static List<D> findAllWithNativeSql(CharSequence sql) {
+        currentHibernateStaticApi().findAllWithNativeSql(sql, Collections.emptyMap())
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Finds an entity for the given native SQL query. The query must be a Groovy GString
+     * so that interpolated values are safely bound as named parameters.
+     *
+     * @param sql The native SQL query (must be a GString with {@code ${value}} interpolations)
+     * @return The entity
+     */
+    @Generated
+    static D findWithNativeSql(CharSequence sql) {
+        currentHibernateStaticApi().findWithNativeSql(sql, Collections.emptyMap())
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Finds all objects for the given native SQL query. The query must be a Groovy GString
+     * so that interpolated values are safely bound as named parameters.
+     *
+     * @param sql  The native SQL query (must be a GString with {@code ${value}} interpolations)
+     * @param args Pagination/query settings (max, offset, cache, etc.) — NOT SQL parameters
+     * @return The matching objects
+     */
+    @Generated
+    static List<D> findAllWithNativeSql(CharSequence sql, Map args) {
+        currentHibernateStaticApi().findAllWithNativeSql(sql, args)
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Finds an entity for the given native SQL query. The query must be a Groovy GString
+     * so that interpolated values are safely bound as named parameters.
+     *
+     * @param sql  The native SQL query (must be a GString with {@code ${value}} interpolations)
+     * @param args Pagination/query settings (max, offset, cache, etc.) — NOT SQL parameters
+     * @return The entity
+     */
+    @Generated
+    static D findWithNativeSql(CharSequence sql, Map args) {
+        currentHibernateStaticApi().findWithNativeSql(sql, args)
+    }
+
     /**
      * Finds all objects for the given SQL query. Pass a GString to have interpolated
      * values safely bound as named parameters rather than interpolated into the query string.
@@ -92,7 +141,7 @@ trait HibernateEntity<D> extends GormEntity<D> {
 
     @Generated
     private static HibernateGormStaticApi currentHibernateStaticApi() {
-        (HibernateGormStaticApi) GormEnhancer.findStaticApi(this)
+        (HibernateGormStaticApi) GormRegistry.findStaticApi(this)
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/grails/orm/CriteriaMethodInvoker.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/grails/orm/CriteriaMethodInvoker.java
index 97bf860cb2..c31fb028f3 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/grails/orm/CriteriaMethodInvoker.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/grails/orm/CriteriaMethodInvoker.java
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentProperty;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.types.Association;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.query.Query;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.domainbinding.hibernate.GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity;
-import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HibernatePagedResultList;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HibernateQuery;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HibernateQueryArgument;
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.PagedResultList;
 
 /**
  * If you want to extend functionality of the HibernateCriteriaBuilder
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ public class CriteriaMethodInvoker {
                     }
                     hibernateQuery.order(order);
                 }
-                result = new HibernatePagedResultList(hibernateQuery);
+                result = new PagedResultList(hibernateQuery);
             } else if (builder.isScroll()) {
                 result = hibernateQuery.scroll();
             } else {
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/ChildHibernateDatastore.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/ChildHibernateDatastore.java
index c3be048d73..233eb85037 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/ChildHibernateDatastore.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/ChildHibernateDatastore.java
@@ -18,20 +18,33 @@
  */
 package org.grails.orm.hibernate;
 
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Map;
+
 import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationManager;
 
 import org.grails.datastore.gorm.events.ConfigurableApplicationEventPublisher;
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Session;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.connections.ConnectionSource;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.connections.ConnectionSources;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.HibernateMappingContext;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.Settings;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.connections.HibernateConnectionSourceSettings;
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.support.hibernate7.SessionHolder;
 
 /**
  * A datastore for a specific connection in a multiple data source setup.
  */
 public class ChildHibernateDatastore extends HibernateDatastore {
 
+    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ChildHibernateDatastore.class);
+
+    private static final ThreadLocal<HibernateDatastore> PARENT_HOLDER = new ThreadLocal<>();
+
     private final HibernateDatastore parent;
 
     public ChildHibernateDatastore(
@@ -39,37 +52,117 @@ public class ChildHibernateDatastore extends HibernateDatastore {
             ConnectionSources<SessionFactory, HibernateConnectionSourceSettings> connectionSources,
             HibernateMappingContext mappingContext,
             ConfigurableApplicationEventPublisher eventPublisher) {
-        super(connectionSources, mappingContext, eventPublisher,
-            connectionSources.getDefaultConnectionSource().getSource());
+        super(bindParent(parent, connectionSources), mappingContext, eventPublisher,
+                connectionSources.getDefaultConnectionSource().getSource());
         this.parent = parent;
+        PARENT_HOLDER.remove();
+    }
+
+    private static ConnectionSources<SessionFactory, HibernateConnectionSourceSettings> bindParent(HibernateDatastore parent, ConnectionSources<SessionFactory, HibernateConnectionSourceSettings> connectionSources) {
+        PARENT_HOLDER.set(parent);
+        return connectionSources;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public HibernateDatastore getPrimaryDatastore() {
+        return parent != null ? parent : PARENT_HOLDER.get();
     }
 
     @Override
     protected HibernateGormEnhancer initialize() {
-        return null;
+        HibernateDatastore p = getPrimaryDatastore();
+        Map<String, HibernateDatastore> datastoresMap = p != null ? p.datastoresByConnectionSource : Collections.emptyMap();
+        return new HibernateGormEnhancer(this, getTransactionManager(), connectionSources.getDefaultConnectionSource().getSettings(), datastoresMap);
     }
 
     @Override
     public void destroy() {
         if (!this.destroyed) {
-            // Only mark as destroyed, don't close shared resources
-            this.destroyed = true;
+            super.destroy();
         }
     }
 
     @Override
     public HibernateDatastore getDatastoreForConnection(String connectionName) {
-        if (Settings.SETTING_DATASOURCE.equals(connectionName) ||
-                ConnectionSource.DEFAULT.equals(connectionName)) {
-            return parent;
-        } else {
-            HibernateDatastore hibernateDatastore = parent.datastoresByConnectionSource.get(connectionName);
-            if (hibernateDatastore == null) {
-                throw new org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.exceptions.ConfigurationException(
-                        "DataSource not found for name [" + connectionName +
-                                "] in configuration. Please check your multiple data sources configuration and try again.");
+        String myName = getConnectionSources().getDefaultConnectionSource().getName();
+        if (connectionName.equals(myName)) {
+            return this;
+        }
+
+        HibernateDatastore p = getPrimaryDatastore();
+        if (Settings.SETTING_DATASOURCE.equals(connectionName) || ConnectionSource.DEFAULT.equals(connectionName)) {
+            return p;
+        }
+
+        if (p != null) {
+            HibernateDatastore hibernateDatastore = p.datastoresByConnectionSource.get(connectionName);
+            if (hibernateDatastore != null) {
+                return hibernateDatastore;
+            }
+            // During initialization this child may not yet be registered in the parent's runtime map,
+            // while sibling datastores being initialized in parallel may also be absent. Return null
+            // only when (a) this child is not yet registered (so we are in the initialization phase)
+            // AND (b) the requested connection name is a sibling that is configured in the parent's
+            // connection sources (i.e., it will exist once initialization completes). Truly unknown
+            // names always throw ConfigurationException regardless of initialization state.
+            if (!p.datastoresByConnectionSource.containsKey(myName) &&
+                    p.connectionSources.getConnectionSource(connectionName) != null) {
+                return null;
+            }
+        }
+
+        throw new org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.exceptions.ConfigurationException(
+                "DataSource not found for name [" + connectionName +
+                        "] in configuration. Please check your multiple data sources configuration and try again.");
+    }
+
+    private org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTransactionManager springTransactionManager;
+
+    @Override
+    public org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext getApplicationContext() {
+        org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext ctx = super.getApplicationContext();
+        if (ctx == null && parent != null) {
+            ctx = parent.getApplicationContext();
+        }
+        return ctx;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTransactionManager getTransactionManager() {
+        if (springTransactionManager == null && getApplicationContext() != null) {
+            String name = getConnectionSources().getDefaultConnectionSource().getName();
+            String beanName = "transactionManager_" + name;
+            if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
+                log.debug("ChildHibernateDatastore.getTransactionManager(): name=" + name + " beanName=" + beanName);
+            }
+            if (getApplicationContext() instanceof org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext configurableApplicationContext) {
+                org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactory = configurableApplicationContext.getBeanFactory();
+                boolean contains = beanFactory.containsBean(beanName);
+                boolean inCreation = beanFactory.isCurrentlyInCreation(beanName);
+                if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
+                    log.debug("ChildHibernateDatastore.getTransactionManager(): contains=" + contains + " inCreation=" + inCreation);
+                }
+                if (contains && !inCreation) {
+                    springTransactionManager = beanFactory.getBean(beanName, org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTransactionManager.class);
+                    if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
+                        log.debug("ChildHibernateDatastore.getTransactionManager(): springTransactionManager resolved: " + springTransactionManager);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return springTransactionManager != null ? springTransactionManager : super.getTransactionManager();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Session connect() {
+        SessionFactory sf = getSessionFactory();
+        Object resource = TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(sf);
+        if (resource instanceof SessionHolder sfHolder) {
+            org.hibernate.Session nativeSession = sfHolder.getSession();
+            if (nativeSession != null && nativeSession.isOpen()) {
+                return new HibernateSession(this, sf, nativeSession);
             }
-            return hibernateDatastore;
         }
+        return new HibernateSession(this, sf, sf.openSession());
     }
 }
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/GrailsHibernateTemplate.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/GrailsHibernateTemplate.java
index c23f23f6b9..12ade07d8a 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/GrailsHibernateTemplate.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/GrailsHibernateTemplate.java
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ public class GrailsHibernateTemplate implements IHibernateTemplate {
                 .getServiceRegistry()
                 .getService(ConnectionProvider.class);
         this.dataSource = connectionProvider != null ? connectionProvider.unwrap(DataSource.class) : null;
+
         if (this.dataSource != null) {
             if (this.dataSource instanceof TransactionAwareDataSourceProxy) {
                 DataSource target = ((TransactionAwareDataSourceProxy) this.dataSource).getTargetDataSource();
@@ -182,7 +183,7 @@ public class GrailsHibernateTemplate implements IHibernateTemplate {
         this(sessionFactory);
         if (datastore != null) {
             cacheQueries = datastore.isCacheQueries();
-            this.osivReadOnly = datastore.isOsivReadOnly();
+            this.osivReadOnly = datastore.isOsivReadOnly(sessionFactory);
             this.passReadOnlyToHibernate = datastore.isPassReadOnlyToHibernate();
             this.flushMode = hibernateFlushModeToConstant(datastore.getDefaultFlushMode());
         }
@@ -192,7 +193,7 @@ public class GrailsHibernateTemplate implements IHibernateTemplate {
         this(sessionFactory);
         if (datastore != null) {
             cacheQueries = datastore.isCacheQueries();
-            this.osivReadOnly = datastore.isOsivReadOnly();
+            this.osivReadOnly = datastore.isOsivReadOnly(sessionFactory);
             this.passReadOnlyToHibernate = datastore.isPassReadOnlyToHibernate();
         }
         this.flushMode = defaultFlushMode;
@@ -216,6 +217,46 @@ public class GrailsHibernateTemplate implements IHibernateTemplate {
         return execute(hibernateCallback);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Executes the given closure in a brand-new Hibernate {@link Session}, fully isolated from any
+     * session or transaction that may already be bound to the current thread.
+     *
+     * <h3>Thread-local state management</h3>
+     * <p>Before opening the new session this method suspends the caller's transactional context:
+     * <ul>
+     *   <li>Any existing {@link org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionImplementor} bound to
+     *       {@link #sessionFactory} is unbound and later restored.</li>
+     *   <li>Any {@link org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.ConnectionHolder} bound to
+     *       {@link #dataSource} is unbound and later restored. This handles the case where the
+     *       datasource is <em>shared</em> across multiple session factories — most notably in
+     *       {@code DATABASE} multi-tenancy mode, where every tenant's session factory references
+     *       the same {@code LazyConnectionDataSourceProxy}. Without this unbinding,
+     *       {@link org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.HibernateTransactionManager#doBegin}
+     *       would throw {@code IllegalStateException: Already value [...] bound to thread}
+     *       when it tried to register the new session's connection.</li>
+     *   <li>Active {@link org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronization}s
+     *       are cleared and restored so that existing listeners are not notified of lifecycle
+     *       events belonging to the inner session.</li>
+     * </ul>
+     *
+     * <h3>Resource restoration</h3>
+     * <p>The {@code finally} block always:
+     * <ol>
+     *   <li>Clears the new session's synchronizations.</li>
+     *   <li>Unbinds and releases the new session's JDBC connection (unless the datasource is a
+     *       {@link org.grails.datastore.gorm.jdbc.MultiTenantDataSource}).</li>
+     *   <li>Closes the new session.</li>
+     *   <li>Re-registers the caller's synchronizations.</li>
+     *   <li>Rebinds the caller's session holder (if one existed).</li>
+     *   <li>Rebinds the caller's connection holder (if one existed), independently of whether
+     *       a session holder was present — necessary for the shared-datasource case above.</li>
+     * </ol>
+     *
+     * @param <T>      the return type of the closure
+     * @param callable a {@link groovy.lang.Closure} that receives the new {@link Session} as its
+     *                 single argument and returns a result
+     * @return the value returned by {@code callable}
+     */
     @SuppressWarnings("PMD.DataflowAnomalyAnalysis")
     @Override
     public <T> T executeWithNewSession(final Closure<T> callable) {
@@ -240,9 +281,13 @@ public class GrailsHibernateTemplate implements IHibernateTemplate {
             // if there are already bound holders, unbind them so they can be restored later
             if (sessionHolder != null) {
                 txResources.unbindResource(sessionFactory);
-                if (previousConnectionHolder != null) {
-                    txResources.unbindResource(dataSource);
-                }
+            }
+            // The datasource may be shared across session factories (e.g. in DATABASE multi-tenancy
+            // mode). If a connection was bound by an outer transaction (e.g. from HibernateSpec.setup),
+            // we must unbind it now so that HibernateTransactionManager.doBegin() can bind its own
+            // connection for the new session, regardless of whether a session holder already exists.
+            if (previousConnectionHolder != null) {
+                txResources.unbindResource(dataSource);
             }
 
             // create and bind a new session holder for the new session
@@ -297,9 +342,12 @@ public class GrailsHibernateTemplate implements IHibernateTemplate {
                 // now restore any previous state
                 if (previousHolder != null) {
                     txResources.bindResource(sessionFactory, previousHolder);
-                    if (previousConnectionHolder != null) {
-                        txResources.bindResource(dataSource, previousConnectionHolder);
-                    }
+                }
+                // Restore the previously-bound datasource connection, even when there was no
+                // prior session holder — the outer transaction's connection must be re-bound so
+                // it can continue after this new-session block returns.
+                if (previousConnectionHolder != null) {
+                    txResources.bindResource(dataSource, previousConnectionHolder);
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/GrailsHibernateTransactionManager.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/GrailsHibernateTransactionManager.groovy
index 5655fbecd4..242e5bfc82 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/GrailsHibernateTransactionManager.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/GrailsHibernateTransactionManager.groovy
@@ -18,17 +18,21 @@
  */
 package org.grails.orm.hibernate
 
+import javax.sql.DataSource
+
 import groovy.transform.CompileStatic
 import groovy.util.logging.Slf4j
-import javax.sql.DataSource
+
 import org.hibernate.FlushMode
 import org.hibernate.SessionFactory
 
-import org.grails.orm.hibernate.support.hibernate7.HibernateTransactionManager
-import org.grails.orm.hibernate.support.hibernate7.SessionHolder
 import org.springframework.transaction.TransactionDefinition
 import org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationManager
 
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Datastore
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.support.hibernate7.HibernateTransactionManager
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.support.hibernate7.SessionHolder
+
 /**
  * Extends the standard class to always set the flush mode to manual when in a read-only transaction.
  *
@@ -39,6 +43,11 @@ import org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationManager
 class GrailsHibernateTransactionManager extends HibernateTransactionManager {
 
     final FlushMode defaultFlushMode
+    private Datastore datastore
+
+    void setDatastore(Datastore datastore) {
+        this.datastore = datastore
+    }
 
     GrailsHibernateTransactionManager(SessionFactory sessionFactory, DataSource dataSource, FlushMode defaultFlushMode = FlushMode.AUTO) {
         super(sessionFactory)
@@ -47,24 +56,53 @@ class GrailsHibernateTransactionManager extends HibernateTransactionManager {
         }
         this.defaultFlushMode = defaultFlushMode
     }
-
     @Override
     protected void doBegin(Object transaction, TransactionDefinition definition) {
         super.doBegin transaction, definition
-
-        if (definition.isReadOnly()) {
-            // transaction is HibernateTransactionManager.HibernateTransactionObject private class instance
-            // always set to manual; the base class doesn't because the OSIV has already registered a session
-
-            SessionHolder holder = (SessionHolder) TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(sessionFactory)
-            if (holder != null) {
-                holder.session.setHibernateFlushMode(FlushMode.MANUAL)
+        
+        SessionHolder holder = (SessionHolder) TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(sessionFactory)
+        if (holder != null) {
+            if (definition.readOnly) {
+                holder.session.setHibernateFlushMode FlushMode.MANUAL
             }
-        } else if (defaultFlushMode != FlushMode.AUTO) {
-            SessionHolder holder = (SessionHolder) TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(sessionFactory)
-            if (holder != null) {
+            else {
                 holder.session.setHibernateFlushMode(defaultFlushMode)
             }
+            if (this.datastore != null) {
+                if (!TransactionSynchronizationManager.hasResource(this.datastore)) {
+                    org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Session session = new HibernateSession((HibernateDatastore) this.datastore, sessionFactory as SessionFactory, null)
+                    TransactionSynchronizationManager.bindResource(this.datastore, new org.grails.datastore.mapping.transactions.SessionHolder(session))
+                }
+                org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormEnhancerRegistry.getInstance().setPreferredDatastore(this.datastore)
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void doCleanupAfterCompletion(Object transaction) {
+        super.doCleanupAfterCompletion(transaction)
+        if (this.datastore != null) {
+            org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormEnhancerRegistry.getInstance().clearPreferredDatastore()
+            HibernateTransactionManager.HibernateTransactionObject txObject = (HibernateTransactionManager.HibernateTransactionObject) transaction
+            if (txObject.isNewSessionHolder()) {
+                TransactionSynchronizationManager.unbindResourceIfPossible(this.datastore)
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void doRollback(org.springframework.transaction.support.DefaultTransactionStatus status) {
+        if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
+            log.debug('GrailsHibernateTransactionManager(' + this.hashCode() + ').doRollback called. status=' + status)
+        }
+        super.doRollback(status)
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void doCommit(org.springframework.transaction.support.DefaultTransactionStatus status) {
+        if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
+            log.debug('GrailsHibernateTransactionManager(' + this.hashCode() + ').doCommit called. status=' + status)
         }
+        super.doCommit(status)
     }
 }
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateDatastore.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateDatastore.java
index fcc6cebaff..d5854986d2 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateDatastore.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateDatastore.java
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
 import org.hibernate.boot.Metadata;
 import org.hibernate.cfg.Environment;
 import org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionFactoryImplementor;
+import org.hibernate.event.service.spi.EventListenerRegistry;
+import org.hibernate.event.spi.EventType;
 import org.hibernate.integrator.spi.Integrator;
 import org.hibernate.integrator.spi.IntegratorService;
 import org.hibernate.service.ServiceRegistry;
@@ -120,6 +122,7 @@ import org.grails.orm.hibernate.event.listener.HibernateEventListener;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.multitenancy.MultiTenantEventListener;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HibernateQueryArgument;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.support.ClosureEventTriggeringInterceptor;
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.support.GormAutoTimestampFlushEntityEventListener;
 
 /**
  * Datastore implementation that uses a Hibernate SessionFactory underneath.
@@ -246,10 +249,11 @@ public class HibernateDatastore extends AbstractDatastore
         } else {
             this.bytecodeProvider = new org.grails.orm.hibernate.proxy.GrailsBytecodeProvider();
         }
-        
-        this.dataSourceName = ConnectionSource.DEFAULT;
+
+        this.dataSourceName = defaultConnectionSource.getName();
         this.sessionFactory = sessionFactory != null ? sessionFactory : defaultConnectionSource.getSource();
-        
+        setSessionResolver(new HibernateSessionResolver(this, this.sessionFactory));
+
         HibernateConnectionSourceSettings settings = defaultConnectionSource.getSettings();
         HibernateConnectionSourceSettings.HibernateSettings hibernateSettings = settings.getHibernate();
         this.osivReadOnly = hibernateSettings.getOsiv().isReadonly();
@@ -259,11 +263,11 @@ public class HibernateDatastore extends AbstractDatastore
         Boolean markDirty = settings.getMarkDirty();
         this.markDirty = markDirty != null && markDirty;
         this.defaultFlushMode = FlushMode.valueOf(hibernateSettings.getFlush().getMode().name());
-        
+
         MultiTenancySettings multiTenancySettings = settings.getMultiTenancy();
         final TenantResolver multiTenantResolver = multiTenancySettings.getTenantResolver();
         this.multiTenantMode = multiTenancySettings.getMode();
-        
+
         Class<? extends SchemaHandler> schemaHandlerClass = settings.getDataSource().getSchemaHandler();
         this.schemaHandler = BeanUtils.instantiateClass(schemaHandlerClass);
         this.tenantResolver = multiTenantResolver;
@@ -275,7 +279,9 @@ public class HibernateDatastore extends AbstractDatastore
 
         this.transactionManager = new GrailsHibernateTransactionManager(
                 defaultConnectionSource.getSource(), defaultConnectionSource.getDataSource(), defaultFlushMode);
+        this.transactionManager.setDatastore(this);
         this.eventPublisher = eventPublisher;
+        setApplicationEventPublisher(eventPublisher);
         this.eventTriggeringInterceptor = new HibernateEventListener(this);
         this.autoTimestampEventListener = new AutoTimestampEventListener(this);
 
@@ -283,6 +289,7 @@ public class HibernateDatastore extends AbstractDatastore
         interceptor.setDatastore(this);
         interceptor.setEventPublisher(eventPublisher);
         registerEventListeners(this.eventPublisher);
+        registerAutoTimestampFlushEntityEventListener();
         configureValidatorRegistry(mappingContext);
         this.mappingContext.addMappingContextListener(new MappingContext.Listener() {
             @Override
@@ -306,7 +313,22 @@ public class HibernateDatastore extends AbstractDatastore
                 if (ConnectionSource.DEFAULT.equals(connectionSource.getName())) {
                     childDatastore = this;
                 } else {
+                    HibernateConnectionSourceSettings hcss = connectionSource.getSettings();
+                    String schema = hcss.getHibernate().get("default_schema");
+                    if (schema != null) {
+                        try (Connection connection = defaultConnectionSource.getDataSource().getConnection()) {
+                            try {
+                                schemaHandler.useSchema(connection, schema);
+                            } catch (Exception e) {
+                                schemaHandler.createSchema(connection, schema);
+                            }
+                            schemaHandler.useDefaultSchema(connection);
+                        } catch (SQLException e) {
+                            LOG.warn("Could not create schema [" + schema + "]: " + e.getMessage());
+                        }
+                    }
                     childDatastore = createChildDatastore(mappingContext, eventPublisher, parent, singletonConnectionSources);
+                    org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry.getInstance().registerDatastoreByQualifier(connectionSource.getName(), childDatastore);
                 }
                 datastoresByConnectionSource.put(connectionSource.getName(), childDatastore);
             }
@@ -316,6 +338,7 @@ public class HibernateDatastore extends AbstractDatastore
                         singletonConnectionSources = new SingletonConnectionSources<>(
                                 connectionSource, connectionSources.getBaseConfiguration());
                 HibernateDatastore childDatastore = createChildDatastore(mappingContext, eventPublisher, parent, singletonConnectionSources);
+                org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry.getInstance().registerDatastoreByQualifier(connectionSource.getName(), childDatastore);
                 datastoresByConnectionSource.put(connectionSource.getName(), childDatastore);
                 registerAllEntitiesWithEnhancer();
             });
@@ -336,6 +359,9 @@ public class HibernateDatastore extends AbstractDatastore
         }
 
         this.gormEnhancer = initialize();
+        if (this.gormEnhancer != null) {
+            registerAllEntitiesWithEnhancer();
+        }
     }
 
     private HibernateDatastore createChildDatastore(
@@ -532,6 +558,25 @@ public class HibernateDatastore extends AbstractDatastore
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Registers {@link GormAutoTimestampFlushEntityEventListener} as a prepended
+     * {@code FLUSH_ENTITY} listener so it runs before Hibernate's
+     * {@code DefaultFlushEntityEventListener} and can update {@code lastUpdated} on the
+     * entity before the dirty-property set is computed. This ensures {@code lastUpdated}
+     * is included in dynamic-update SQL even when {@code dynamicUpdate = true}.
+     */
+    protected void registerAutoTimestampFlushEntityEventListener() {
+        if (this.sessionFactory instanceof SessionFactoryImplementor sfi) {
+            EventListenerRegistry elr =
+                    sfi.getServiceRegistry().getService(EventListenerRegistry.class);
+            if (elr != null) {
+                elr.getEventListenerGroup(EventType.FLUSH_ENTITY)
+                        .prependListener(new GormAutoTimestampFlushEntityEventListener(
+                                autoTimestampEventListener, mappingContext));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     protected void configureValidatorRegistry(HibernateMappingContext mappingContext) {
         StaticMessageSource messageSource = new StaticMessageSource();
         ValidatorRegistry defaultValidatorRegistry = createValidatorRegistry(messageSource);
@@ -561,18 +606,28 @@ public class HibernateDatastore extends AbstractDatastore
                     datastoresByConnectionSource
             );
         } else {
-            return new HibernateGormEnhancer(this, transactionManager, defaultConnectionSource.getSettings());
+            return new HibernateGormEnhancer(this, transactionManager, defaultConnectionSource.getSettings(), datastoresByConnectionSource);
         }
     }
 
     @Override
     public boolean hasCurrentSession() {
-        return TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(sessionFactory) != null;
+        SessionFactory sf = getSessionFactory();
+        return super.hasCurrentSession() || (sf != null && TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(sf) != null);
+    }
+
+    public boolean hasCurrentTransaction() {
+        SessionFactory sf = getSessionFactory();
+        Object resource = sf != null ? TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(sf) : null;
+        if (resource instanceof org.grails.orm.hibernate.support.hibernate7.SessionHolder) {
+            return ((org.grails.orm.hibernate.support.hibernate7.SessionHolder) resource).getTransaction() != null;
+        }
+        return false;
     }
 
     @Override
     protected Session createSession(PropertyResolver connectionDetails) {
-        return new HibernateSession(this, sessionFactory);
+        return new HibernateSession(this, getSessionFactory());
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -634,17 +689,62 @@ public class HibernateDatastore extends AbstractDatastore
         return session;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Returns the current GORM session for this datastore, using a priority-based lookup.
+     *
+     * <p>Priority order:
+     * <ol>
+     *   <li>Custom session resolver (e.g. {@code StaticSingletonPersistenceContextInterceptor})</li>
+     *   <li>GORM session holder in TSM (key = this datastore)</li>
+     *   <li>Spring TX {@link SessionFactory} holder in TSM (key = SessionFactory) — used when
+     *       {@code withTransaction{}} is active and the TX manager has bound the session</li>
+     * </ol>
+     *
+     * <p>Without priority 3, {@code DatastoreUtils.execute()} would call {@link #connect()} and
+     * open a brand-new standalone session even inside a {@code withTransaction{}} block,
+     * causing {@code TransactionRequiredException} on flush for SCHEMA multi-tenancy child
+     * datastores (each of which has its own {@link SessionFactory}).</p>
+     */
     @Override
     public Session getCurrentSession() throws ConnectionNotFoundException {
-        return new HibernateSession(this, sessionFactory);
+        // Priority 1: custom session resolver
+        Session resolved = getSessionResolver().resolve();
+        if (resolved != null) {
+            return resolved;
+        }
+        // Priority 2: GORM session holder (key = this datastore)
+        org.grails.datastore.mapping.transactions.SessionHolder gormHolder =
+                (org.grails.datastore.mapping.transactions.SessionHolder)
+                        TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(this);
+        if (gormHolder != null) {
+            Session s = gormHolder.getValidatedSession();
+            if (s != null) {
+                return s;
+            }
+        }
+        // Priority 3: Spring TX SessionFactory holder (key = SessionFactory).
+        // When withTransaction{} is active, the TX manager binds the Hibernate session here.
+        SessionFactory sf = getSessionFactory();
+        if (sf != null) {
+            Object resource = TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(sf);
+            if (resource instanceof org.grails.orm.hibernate.support.hibernate7.SessionHolder sfHolder) {
+                org.hibernate.Session nativeSession = sfHolder.getSession();
+                if (nativeSession != null && nativeSession.isOpen()) {
+                    return new HibernateSession(this, sf, nativeSession);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        throw new ConnectionNotFoundException(
+                "No Datastore Session bound to thread, and configuration does not allow creation of non-transactional one here");
     }
 
     @Override
     public void destroy() {
         if (!this.destroyed) {
+            org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry.getInstance().removeDatastore(this);
             try {
                 for (HibernateDatastore childDatastore : datastoresByConnectionSource.values()) {
-                    if (childDatastore != this && childDatastore.getMappingContext() != getMappingContext()) {
+                    if (childDatastore != this) {
                         childDatastore.destroy();
                     }
                 }
@@ -760,6 +860,7 @@ public class HibernateDatastore extends AbstractDatastore
             ConnectionSource<SessionFactory, HibernateConnectionSourceSettings> connectionSource =
                     factory.create(schemaName, dataSourceConnectionSource, tenantSettings);
             HibernateDatastore childDatastore = getChildDatastore(connectionSource);
+            org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry.getInstance().registerDatastoreByQualifier(schemaName, childDatastore);
             datastoresByConnectionSource.put(connectionSource.getName(), childDatastore);
         } finally {
             TransactionSynchronizationManager.unbindResourceIfPossible(dataSource);
@@ -815,16 +916,21 @@ public class HibernateDatastore extends AbstractDatastore
                 messageSource);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * @return The primary datastore
+     */
+    public HibernateDatastore getPrimaryDatastore() {
+        return this;
+    }
+
     @Override
     public MultiTenancySettings.MultiTenancyMode getMultiTenancyMode() {
-        return this.multiTenantMode == MultiTenancySettings.MultiTenancyMode.SCHEMA ?
-                MultiTenancySettings.MultiTenancyMode.DATABASE :
-                this.multiTenantMode;
+        return this.multiTenantMode;
     }
 
     @Override
     public Datastore getDatastoreForTenantId(Serializable tenantId) {
-        if (getMultiTenancyMode() == MultiTenancySettings.MultiTenancyMode.DATABASE) {
+        if (getMultiTenancyMode() == MultiTenancySettings.MultiTenancyMode.DATABASE || getMultiTenancyMode() == MultiTenancySettings.MultiTenancyMode.SCHEMA) {
             return getDatastoreForConnection(tenantId.toString());
         } else {
             return this;
@@ -877,7 +983,7 @@ public class HibernateDatastore extends AbstractDatastore
         return failOnError;
     }
 
-    public boolean isOsivReadOnly() {
+    public boolean isOsivReadOnly(SessionFactory sessionFactory) {
         return osivReadOnly;
     }
 
@@ -941,33 +1047,67 @@ public class HibernateDatastore extends AbstractDatastore
 
     @Override
     public <T> T withSession(final Closure<T> callable) {
-        Closure<T> multiTenantCallable = prepareMultiTenantClosure(callable);
-        return getHibernateTemplate().execute(multiTenantCallable);
+        if (multiTenantMode == MultiTenancySettings.MultiTenancyMode.SCHEMA && !(this instanceof ChildHibernateDatastore)) {
+            Serializable tenantId = Tenants.currentId(this);
+            if (tenantId != null && !ConnectionSource.DEFAULT.equals(tenantId.toString())) {
+                return getDatastoreForTenantId(tenantId).withSession(callable);
+            }
+        }
+        final HibernateDatastore self = this;
+        return DatastoreUtils.execute(this, session -> {
+            org.hibernate.Session nativeSession = ((HibernateSession) session).getNativeSession();
+            SessionFactory sessionFactory = getSessionFactory();
+            boolean alreadyBound = TransactionSynchronizationManager.hasResource(sessionFactory);
+            if (!alreadyBound) {
+                org.grails.orm.hibernate.support.hibernate7.SessionHolder sessionHolder = new org.grails.orm.hibernate.support.hibernate7.SessionHolder(nativeSession);
+                TransactionSynchronizationManager.bindResource(sessionFactory, sessionHolder);
+            }
+            try {
+                Closure<T> multiTenantCallable = prepareMultiTenantClosure(callable);
+                return multiTenantCallable.call(nativeSession);
+            } finally {
+                if (!alreadyBound) {
+                    TransactionSynchronizationManager.unbindResource(sessionFactory);
+                }
+            }
+        });
     }
 
     public <T> T withSession(String connectionName, final Closure<T> callable) {
-        HibernateDatastore datastore = getDatastoreForConnection(connectionName);
-        Closure<T> multiTenantCallable = datastore.prepareMultiTenantClosure(callable);
-        return datastore.getHibernateTemplate().execute(multiTenantCallable);
+        return getDatastoreForConnection(connectionName).withSession(callable);
     }
 
     public <T> T withNewSession(String connectionName, final Closure<T> callable) {
-        HibernateDatastore datastore = getDatastoreForConnection(connectionName);
-        Closure<T> multiTenantCallable = datastore.prepareMultiTenantClosure(callable);
-        return datastore.getHibernateTemplate().executeWithNewSession(multiTenantCallable);
+        return getDatastoreForConnection(connectionName).withNewSession(callable);
     }
 
     public <T> T withNewSession(final Closure<T> callable) {
-        Closure<T> multiTenantCallable = prepareMultiTenantClosure(callable);
-        return getHibernateTemplate().executeWithNewSession(multiTenantCallable);
+        // Delegate to GrailsHibernateTemplate.executeWithNewSession which correctly saves and
+        // restores both the Hibernate SessionHolder and the JDBC ConnectionHolder so that a
+        // nested transaction inside the closure starts clean (no pre-bound connection conflict).
+        final HibernateDatastore self = this;
+        final Closure<T> multiTenantCallable = prepareMultiTenantClosure(callable);
+        return getHibernateTemplate().executeWithNewSession(new Closure<T>(this) {
+            @Override
+            public T call(Object... args) {
+                org.hibernate.Session nativeSession = (org.hibernate.Session) args[0];
+                HibernateSession gormSession = new HibernateSession(self, self.getSessionFactory(), nativeSession);
+                DatastoreUtils.bindNewSession(gormSession);
+                try {
+                    return multiTenantCallable.call(nativeSession);
+                } finally {
+                    DatastoreUtils.unbindSession(gormSession);
+                    // Native session is closed by executeWithNewSession's finally block,
+                    // but we still want to clean up any GORM-specific state if needed.
+                }
+            }
+        });
     }
 
     @Override
     public <T1> T1 withNewSession(Serializable tenantId, Closure<T1> callable) {
-        if (getMultiTenancyMode() == MultiTenancySettings.MultiTenancyMode.DATABASE) {
-            HibernateDatastore datastore = getDatastoreForConnection(tenantId.toString());
-            SessionFactory sf = datastore.getSessionFactory();
-            return datastore.getHibernateTemplate().executeWithExistingOrCreateNewSession(sf, callable);
+        if (getMultiTenancyMode() == MultiTenancySettings.MultiTenancyMode.DATABASE || getMultiTenancyMode() == MultiTenancySettings.MultiTenancyMode.SCHEMA) {
+            return ((HibernateDatastore) getDatastoreForTenantId(tenantId)).withNewSession(callable);
         } else {
             return withNewSession(callable);
         }
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormApiFactory.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormApiFactory.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b75fd28d66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormApiFactory.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+/*
+ *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ *  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ *  distributed with this work for additional information
+ *  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ *  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ *  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ *  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ *  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ *  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ *  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ *  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ *  under the License.
+ */
+package org.grails.orm.hibernate
+
+import groovy.transform.CompileStatic
+
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.DefaultGormApiFactory
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.DatastoreResolver
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormInstanceApi
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormStaticApi
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormValidationApi
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.MappingContext
+
+/**
+ * Hibernate-specific factory for creating GORM API objects.
+ * Creates Hibernate-specific API implementations (HibernateGormStaticApi, etc.)
+ * instead of generic GORM APIs.
+ *
+ * @since 8.0.0
+ */
+@CompileStatic
+class HibernateGormApiFactory extends DefaultGormApiFactory {
+
+    @Override
+    <D> GormStaticApi<D> createStaticApi(Class<D> persistentClass,
+                                         MappingContext mappingContext,
+                                         DatastoreResolver resolver,
+                                         String qualifier,
+                                         GormRegistry registry) {
+        def finders = createDynamicFinders(resolver, mappingContext)
+        ClassLoader classLoader = mappingContext.getMappingFactory().getClass().getClassLoader()
+        return new HibernateGormStaticApi<D>(persistentClass, mappingContext, finders, resolver, qualifier, classLoader)
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    <D> GormInstanceApi<D> createInstanceApi(Class<D> persistentClass,
+                                             MappingContext mappingContext,
+                                             DatastoreResolver resolver,
+                                             GormRegistry registry,
+                                             boolean failOnError,
+                                             boolean markDirty) {
+        ClassLoader classLoader = mappingContext.getMappingFactory().getClass().getClassLoader()
+        GormInstanceApi<D> instanceApi = new HibernateGormInstanceApi<D>(persistentClass, mappingContext, resolver, classLoader)
+        instanceApi.failOnError = failOnError
+        instanceApi.markDirty = markDirty
+        return instanceApi
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    <D> GormValidationApi<D> createValidationApi(Class<D> persistentClass,
+                                                 MappingContext mappingContext,
+                                                 DatastoreResolver resolver,
+                                                 GormRegistry registry) {
+        ClassLoader classLoader = mappingContext.getMappingFactory().getClass().getClassLoader()
+        return new HibernateGormValidationApi<D>(persistentClass, mappingContext, resolver, classLoader)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormEnhancer.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormEnhancer.groovy
index 1349ae24f6..75ef7ab69e 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormEnhancer.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormEnhancer.groovy
@@ -16,20 +16,6 @@
  *  specific language governing permissions and limitations
  *  under the License.
  */
-/* Copyright (C) 2011 SpringSource
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
 package org.grails.orm.hibernate
 
 import groovy.transform.CompileStatic
@@ -37,15 +23,14 @@ import groovy.transform.CompileStatic
 import org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTransactionManager
 
 import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormEnhancer
-import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormInstanceApi
-import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormStaticApi
-import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormValidationApi
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Datastore
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.connections.ConnectionSource
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.connections.ConnectionSourceSettings
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentEntity
 
 /**
- * Extended GORM Enhancer that fills out the remaining GORM for Hibernate methods
- * and implements string-based query support via HQL.
+ * A {@link GormEnhancer} for Hibernate.
  *
  * @author Graeme Rocher
  * @since 1.0
@@ -53,47 +38,37 @@ import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.connections.ConnectionSourceSettings
 @CompileStatic
 class HibernateGormEnhancer extends GormEnhancer {
 
+    private static final HibernateGormApiFactory API_FACTORY = new HibernateGormApiFactory()
+    protected final Map<String, HibernateDatastore> datastoresByConnectionSource
+
     @Deprecated
     HibernateGormEnhancer(HibernateDatastore datastore, PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager) {
-        super(datastore, transactionManager)
+        this(datastore, transactionManager, datastore.connectionSources.defaultConnectionSource.settings)
     }
 
-    HibernateGormEnhancer(Datastore datastore, PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager, ConnectionSourceSettings settings) {
-        super(datastore, transactionManager, settings)
+    HibernateGormEnhancer(HibernateDatastore datastore, PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager, ConnectionSourceSettings settings) {
+        this(datastore, transactionManager, settings, Collections.<String, HibernateDatastore>emptyMap())
     }
 
-    @Override
-    protected <D> GormStaticApi<D> getStaticApi(Class<D> cls, String qualifier) {
-        HibernateDatastore hibernateDatastore = (HibernateDatastore) datastore
-        HibernateDatastore datastoreForConnection = hibernateDatastore.getDatastoreForConnection(qualifier)
-        new HibernateGormStaticApi<D>(
-                cls,
-                datastoreForConnection,
-                createDynamicFinders(datastoreForConnection),
-                Thread.currentThread().contextClassLoader,
-                datastoreForConnection.getTransactionManager(),
-                qualifier
-        )
+    HibernateGormEnhancer(HibernateDatastore datastore, PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager, ConnectionSourceSettings settings, Map<String, HibernateDatastore> datastoresByConnectionSource) {
+        super(datastore, transactionManager, settings, prepareRegistry())
+        this.datastoresByConnectionSource = datastoresByConnectionSource
     }
 
-    @Override
-    protected <D> GormInstanceApi<D> getInstanceApi(Class<D> cls, String qualifier) {
-        HibernateDatastore hibernateDatastore = (HibernateDatastore) datastore
-        new HibernateGormInstanceApi<D>(cls, hibernateDatastore.getDatastoreForConnection(qualifier), Thread.currentThread().contextClassLoader)
+    private static GormRegistry prepareRegistry() {
+        GormRegistry registry = GormRegistry.instance
+        registry.registerApiFactory(HibernateDatastore, API_FACTORY)
+        return registry
     }
 
     @Override
-    protected <D> GormValidationApi<D> getValidationApi(Class<D> cls, String qualifier) {
-        HibernateDatastore hibernateDatastore = (HibernateDatastore) datastore
-        new HibernateGormValidationApi<D>(cls, hibernateDatastore.getDatastoreForConnection(qualifier), Thread.currentThread().contextClassLoader)
+    List<String> allQualifiers(Datastore datastore, PersistentEntity entity) {
+        List<String> qualifiers = new ArrayList<>(super.allQualifiers(datastore, entity))
+        if (qualifiers.contains(ConnectionSource.ALL)) {
+            qualifiers.remove(ConnectionSource.ALL)
+            qualifiers.addAll(datastoresByConnectionSource.keySet())
+        }
+        return qualifiers.unique()
     }
 
-    @Override
-    protected void registerConstraints(Datastore datastore) {
-        // no-op
-    }
-
-    public static <D> GormStaticApi<D> findStaticApi(Class<D> cls, String qualifier) {
-        GormEnhancer.findStaticApi(cls, qualifier)
-    }
 }
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormInstanceApi.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormInstanceApi.groovy
index 4034b5c1d9..14944a5fa3 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormInstanceApi.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormInstanceApi.groovy
@@ -16,115 +16,251 @@
  *  specific language governing permissions and limitations
  *  under the License.
  */
-/*
- * Copyright 2013-2026 the original author or authors.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
 package org.grails.orm.hibernate
 
+import groovy.transform.CompileDynamic
 import groovy.transform.CompileStatic
 import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper
 
-import jakarta.persistence.FlushModeType
 import jakarta.persistence.LockModeType
 
-import org.hibernate.HibernateException
 import org.hibernate.LockMode
+
+import org.hibernate.Hibernate
 import org.hibernate.Session
-import org.hibernate.SessionFactory
 import org.hibernate.collection.spi.PersistentCollection
 import org.hibernate.engine.spi.EntityEntry
 import org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionImplementor
 import org.hibernate.persister.entity.EntityPersister
 
-import org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl
-import org.springframework.beans.InvalidPropertyException
-import org.springframework.dao.DataAccessException
 import org.springframework.validation.Errors
 import org.springframework.validation.Validator
 
 import grails.gorm.validation.CascadingValidator
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.DatastoreResolver
 import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormInstanceApi
 import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormValidateable
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.finders.DynamicFinder
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Datastore
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.dirty.checking.DirtyCheckable
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.engine.event.ValidationEvent
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.MappingContext
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentEntity
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentProperty
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.config.GormProperties
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.types.Association
-import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.types.Embedded
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.types.ManyToMany
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.types.OneToMany
-import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.types.ToOne
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.reflect.ClassUtils
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.reflect.EntityReflector
-import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.GrailsHibernateUtil
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.proxy.GroovyProxyInterceptorLogic
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.support.ClosureEventListener
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.support.HibernateRuntimeUtils
 
 /**
- * The implementation of the GORM instance API contract for Hibernate 7.
+ * Hibernate GORM instance API.
+ *
+ * @author Graeme Rocher
+ * @since 1.0
  */
 @CompileStatic
 class HibernateGormInstanceApi<D> extends GormInstanceApi<D> {
 
-    private static final String ARGUMENT_VALIDATE = 'validate'
-    private static final String ARGUMENT_DEEP_VALIDATE = 'deepValidate'
-    private static final String ARGUMENT_FLUSH = 'flush'
-    private static final String ARGUMENT_INSERT = 'insert'
-    private static final String ARGUMENT_MERGE = 'merge'
-    private static final String ARGUMENT_FAIL_ON_ERROR = 'failOnError'
-    private static final Class DEFERRED_BINDING
+    protected Class<? extends Exception> validationException
+    protected final ClassLoader classLoader
+    protected IHibernateTemplate hibernateTemplate
 
-    static {
-        try {
-            DEFERRED_BINDING = Class.forName('grails.validation.DeferredBindingActions')
-        } catch (Throwable ignored) {
-            DEFERRED_BINDING = null
+    HibernateGormInstanceApi(Class<D> persistentClass, HibernateDatastore datastore, ClassLoader classLoader) {
+        super(persistentClass, datastore)
+        this.classLoader = classLoader ?: persistentClass.classLoader
+        this.hibernateTemplate = (IHibernateTemplate) datastore.getHibernateTemplate()
+        initializeValidationException(this.classLoader)
+    }
+
+    HibernateGormInstanceApi(Class<D> persistentClass, MappingContext mappingContext, DatastoreResolver datastoreResolver, ClassLoader classLoader) {
+        super(persistentClass, mappingContext, datastoreResolver)
+        this.classLoader = classLoader ?: persistentClass.classLoader
+        initializeValidationException(this.classLoader)
+    }
+
+    protected void initializeValidationException(ClassLoader classLoader) {
+        for (cl in [classLoader, Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(), HibernateGormInstanceApi.classLoader]) {
+            if (cl == null) continue
+            try {
+                this.validationException = (Class<? extends Exception>) cl.loadClass('grails.validation.ValidationException')
+                return
+            } catch (Throwable e) {
+                // ignore
+            }
         }
+        this.validationException = org.grails.datastore.mapping.validation.ValidationException
     }
 
-    static final ThreadLocal<Boolean> insertActiveThreadLocal = new ThreadLocal<Boolean>()
+    protected HibernateDatastore getHibernateDatastore() {
+        return (HibernateDatastore) getDatastore()
+    }
 
-    protected SessionFactory sessionFactory
-    protected ClassLoader classLoader
-    protected IHibernateTemplate hibernateTemplate
-    boolean autoFlush
-    protected InstanceApiHelper instanceApiHelper
+    InstanceApiHelper getInstanceApiHelper() {
+        return getHibernateDatastore().getInstanceApiHelper()
+    }
 
-    HibernateGormInstanceApi(Class<D> persistentClass, HibernateDatastore datastore, ClassLoader classLoader) {
-        super(persistentClass, datastore as Datastore)
-        this.classLoader = classLoader
-        this.sessionFactory = datastore.getSessionFactory()
-        this.hibernateTemplate = (GrailsHibernateTemplate) datastore.getHibernateTemplate()
-        this.autoFlush = datastore.autoFlush
-        this.failOnError = datastore.failOnError
-        this.markDirty = datastore.markDirty
-        this.instanceApiHelper = datastore.getInstanceApiHelper()
+    /**
+     * Handles proxy-related method calls on Hibernate or Groovy proxies (e.g. isInitialized()).
+     */
+    @CompileDynamic
+    Object methodMissing(Object target, String name, Object[] args) {
+        if ('isInitialized' == name) {
+            Boolean groovyResult = GroovyProxyInterceptorLogic.isInitialized(target)
+            return groovyResult != null ? groovyResult : Hibernate.isInitialized(target)
+        }
+        if ('initialize' == name || 'getTarget' == name) {
+            Hibernate.initialize(target)
+            return target
+        }
+        throw new MissingMethodException(name, target?.class ?: persistentClass, args, false)
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    HibernateGormInstanceApi<D> forQualifier(String qualifier) {
+        Datastore ds = getDatastore()
+        if (ds == null) return this
+        
+        org.grails.datastore.gorm.DatastoreResolver resolver = new org.grails.datastore.gorm.DatastoreResolver() {
+            @Override Datastore resolve() { org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry.instance.apiResolver.findDatastore(persistentClass, qualifier) }
+        }
+        HibernateGormInstanceApi<D> newApi = new HibernateGormInstanceApi<D>(persistentClass, ds.mappingContext, resolver, classLoader)
+        newApi.failOnError = failOnError
+        newApi.markDirty = markDirty
+        return newApi
+    }
+
+    protected IHibernateTemplate getHibernateTemplate() {
+        if (this.hibernateTemplate == null) {
+            HibernateDatastore datastore = getHibernateDatastore()
+            IHibernateTemplate template = (IHibernateTemplate) datastore.getHibernateTemplate()
+            if (qualifier != null && !org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.connections.ConnectionSource.DEFAULT.equals(qualifier) && datastore.getMultiTenancyMode() == org.grails.datastore.mapping.multitenancy.MultiTenancySettings.MultiTenancyMode.DISCRIMINATOR) {
+                String connectionName = datastore.connectionSources.defaultConnectionSource.name
+                if (!connectionName.equals(qualifier)) {
+                    this.hibernateTemplate = new TenantBoundHibernateTemplate(template, (Serializable)qualifier, datastore)
+                } else {
+                    this.hibernateTemplate = template
+                }
+            } else {
+                // For DEFAULT qualifier or non-discriminator mode, the datastore resolver may return
+                // different datastores in different transaction contexts (e.g., preferred datastore switching
+                // between a multi-datasource parent and a secondary child). Do not cache here — resolve
+                // the template dynamically on every call to avoid using a stale template from a prior context.
+                return template
+            }
+        }
+        return hibernateTemplate
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks whether a field is dirty
+     * Gets the original persisted value of a field.
+     *
+     * @param fieldName The field name
+     * @return The original persisted value
+     */
+    Object getPersistentValue(D instance, String fieldName) {
+        SessionImplementor session = (SessionImplementor) getHibernateDatastore().getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession()
+        EntityEntry entry = findEntityEntry(instance, session)
+        if (entry == null || entry.getLoadedState() == null) {
+            if (instance instanceof DirtyCheckable) {
+                return ((DirtyCheckable) instance).getOriginalValue(fieldName)
+            }
+            return null
+        }
+
+        EntityPersister persister = entry.getPersister()
+        int fieldIndex = Arrays.asList(persister.getPropertyNames()).indexOf(fieldName)
+        return fieldIndex == -1 ? null : entry.getLoadedState()[fieldIndex]
+    }
+
+    protected EntityEntry findEntityEntry(D instance, SessionImplementor session) {
+        return session.getPersistenceContext().getEntry(instance)
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    List<String> getDirtyPropertyNames(D instance) {
+        if (instance instanceof DirtyCheckable) {
+            return ((DirtyCheckable) instance).listDirtyPropertyNames()
+        }
+        SessionImplementor session = (SessionImplementor) getHibernateDatastore().getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession()
+        EntityEntry entry = findEntityEntry(instance, session)
+        if (entry == null) {
+            return Collections.emptyList()
+        }
+
+        Object[] loadedState = entry.getLoadedState()
+        if (loadedState == null) {
+            return Collections.emptyList()
+        }
+
+        EntityPersister persister = entry.getPersister()
+        Object[] values = persister.getPropertyValues(instance)
+        int[] dirtyPropertyIndexes = persister.findDirty(values, loadedState, instance, session)
+        if (dirtyPropertyIndexes == null) {
+            return Collections.emptyList()
+        }
+
+        List<String> names = new ArrayList<>()
+        String[] propertyNames = persister.getPropertyNames()
+        for (int index : dirtyPropertyIndexes) {
+            names.add(propertyNames[index])
+        }
+        return names
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    boolean isDirty(D instance) {
+        if (!isAttached(instance)) {
+            return false
+        }
+        if (instance instanceof DirtyCheckable) {
+            return ((DirtyCheckable) instance).hasChanged()
+        }
+        SessionImplementor session = (SessionImplementor) getHibernateDatastore().getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession()
+        EntityEntry entry = findEntityEntry(instance, session)
+        if (entry == null) {
+            return false
+        }
+
+        Object[] loadedState = entry.getLoadedState()
+        if (loadedState == null) {
+            return true // brand new
+        }
+
+        EntityPersister persister = entry.getPersister()
+        Object[] values = persister.getPropertyValues(instance)
+        int[] dirtyPropertyIndexes = persister.findDirty(values, loadedState, instance, session)
+        return dirtyPropertyIndexes != null && dirtyPropertyIndexes.length > 0
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    boolean isDirty(D instance, String fieldName) {
+        if (!isAttached(instance)) {
+            return false
+        }
+        if (instance instanceof DirtyCheckable) {
+            return ((DirtyCheckable) instance).hasChanged(fieldName)
+        }
+        return false
     }
 
     @Override
     D save(D target, Map arguments) {
-        PersistentEntity domainClass = persistentEntity
+        PersistentEntity domainClass = getGormPersistentEntity()
         runDeferredBinding()
         boolean shouldFlush = shouldFlush(arguments)
-        boolean shouldValidate = shouldValidate(arguments, persistentEntity)
+        boolean shouldValidate = shouldValidate(arguments, domainClass)
 
         HibernateRuntimeUtils.autoAssociateBidirectionalOneToOnes(domainClass, target)
 
         boolean deepValidate = true
-        if (arguments?.containsKey(ARGUMENT_DEEP_VALIDATE)) {
-            deepValidate = ClassUtils.getBooleanFromMap(ARGUMENT_DEEP_VALIDATE, arguments)
+        if (arguments?.containsKey(HibernateGormValidationApi.ARGUMENT_DEEP_VALIDATE)) {
+            deepValidate = ClassUtils.getBooleanFromMap(HibernateGormValidationApi.ARGUMENT_DEEP_VALIDATE, arguments)
         }
 
         if (shouldValidate) {
@@ -132,7 +268,7 @@ class HibernateGormInstanceApi<D> extends GormInstanceApi<D> {
             Errors errors = HibernateRuntimeUtils.setupErrorsProperty(target)
 
             if (validator) {
-                datastore.applicationEventPublisher?.publishEvent new ValidationEvent(datastore, target)
+                getHibernateDatastore().applicationEventPublisher?.publishEvent new ValidationEvent(getHibernateDatastore(), target)
 
                 if (validator instanceof CascadingValidator) {
                     ((CascadingValidator) validator).validate target, errors, deepValidate
@@ -145,7 +281,7 @@ class HibernateGormInstanceApi<D> extends GormInstanceApi<D> {
                 if (errors.hasErrors()) {
                     handleValidationError(domainClass, target, errors)
                     if (shouldFail(arguments)) {
-                        throw validationException.newInstance('Validation Error(s) occurred during save()', errors)
+                        throw org.grails.datastore.mapping.validation.ValidationException.newInstance('Validation Error(s) occurred during save()', errors)
                     }
                     return null
                 }
@@ -153,15 +289,31 @@ class HibernateGormInstanceApi<D> extends GormInstanceApi<D> {
             }
         }
 
-        autoRetrieveAssociations datastore, domainClass, target
+        autoRetrieveAssociations getHibernateDatastore(), domainClass, target
 
         GormValidateable validateable = (GormValidateable) target
         validateable.skipValidation(true)
+        if (!deepValidate) {
+            ClosureEventListener.SKIP_DEEP_VALIDATION.set(Boolean.TRUE)
+        }
 
         try {
             return performUpsert(target, shouldFlush)
         } finally {
             validateable.skipValidation(false)
+            if (!deepValidate) {
+                ClosureEventListener.SKIP_DEEP_VALIDATION.remove()
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static final Class DEFERRED_BINDING
+
+    static {
+        try {
+            DEFERRED_BINDING = HibernateGormInstanceApi.classLoader.loadClass('org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.DeferredBindingActions')
+        } catch (Throwable e) {
+            DEFERRED_BINDING = null
         }
     }
 
@@ -171,89 +323,203 @@ class HibernateGormInstanceApi<D> extends GormInstanceApi<D> {
         }
     }
 
+    protected void autoRetrieveAssociations(Datastore datastore, PersistentEntity domainClass, D target) {
+        // no-op, handled by Hibernate
+    }
+
+    protected boolean isAutoFlush() {
+        return getHibernateDatastore().isAutoFlush()
+    }
+
     @Override
-    D merge(D instance, Map params) {
-        Map args = new HashMap(params)
-        args[ARGUMENT_MERGE] = true
-        return save(instance, args)
+    boolean isFailOnError() {
+        return getHibernateDatastore().isFailOnError()
     }
 
     @Override
-    D insert(D instance, Map params) {
-        Map args = new HashMap(params)
-        args[ARGUMENT_INSERT] = true
-        return save(instance, args)
+    boolean isMarkDirty() {
+        return getHibernateDatastore().markDirty
+    }
+
+    protected boolean shouldFlush(Map arguments) {
+        if (arguments?.containsKey('flush')) {
+            return ClassUtils.getBooleanFromMap('flush', arguments)
+        }
+        if (arguments?.containsKey(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_FLUSH_MODE)) {
+            return ClassUtils.getBooleanFromMap(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_FLUSH_MODE, arguments)
+        }
+        return isAutoFlush()
+    }
+
+    protected boolean shouldValidate(Map arguments, PersistentEntity domainClass) {
+        if (arguments?.containsKey('validate')) {
+            return ClassUtils.getBooleanFromMap('validate', arguments)
+        }
+        if (arguments?.containsKey(org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormValidationApi.ARGUMENT_DEEP_VALIDATE)) {
+            return ClassUtils.getBooleanFromMap(org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormValidationApi.ARGUMENT_DEEP_VALIDATE, arguments)
+        }
+        return true
+    }
+
+    protected boolean shouldFail(Map arguments) {
+        if (arguments?.containsKey('failOnError')) {
+            return ClassUtils.getBooleanFromMap('failOnError', arguments)
+        }
+        return isFailOnError()
     }
 
     @Override
-    void discard(D instance) {
-        hibernateTemplate.evict instance
+    D merge(D target, Map arguments) {
+        return performMerge(target, shouldFlush(arguments))
     }
 
     @Override
-    void delete(D instance, Map params = Collections.emptyMap()) {
-        boolean flush = shouldFlush(params)
-        try {
-            hibernateTemplate.execute { Session session ->
-                session.remove instance
-                if (flush) {
-                    session.flush()
+    D insert(D target, Map arguments) {
+        PersistentEntity domainClass = getGormPersistentEntity()
+        runDeferredBinding()
+        boolean shouldFlush = shouldFlush(arguments)
+        boolean shouldValidate = shouldValidate(arguments, domainClass)
+
+        if (shouldValidate) {
+            Validator validator = datastore.mappingContext.getEntityValidator(domainClass)
+            Errors errors = HibernateRuntimeUtils.setupErrorsProperty(target)
+
+            if (validator) {
+                getHibernateDatastore().applicationEventPublisher?.publishEvent new ValidationEvent(getHibernateDatastore(), target)
+                validator.validate target, errors
+
+                if (errors.hasErrors()) {
+                    handleValidationError(domainClass, target, errors)
+                    if (shouldFail(arguments)) {
+                        throw org.grails.datastore.mapping.validation.ValidationException.newInstance('Validation Error(s) occurred during insert()', errors)
+                    }
+                    return null
                 }
             }
         }
-        catch (DataAccessException e) {
-            try {
-                hibernateTemplate.execute { Session session ->
-                    session.setFlushMode(FlushModeType.COMMIT)
+
+        GormValidateable validateable = (GormValidateable) target
+        validateable.skipValidation(true)
+
+        try {
+            return (D) execute({ org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Session session ->
+                session.insert(target)
+                if (shouldFlush) {
+                    session.flush()
                 }
-            }
-            finally {
-                throw e
+                return target
+            } as org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.SessionCallback)
+        } finally {
+            validateable.skipValidation(false)
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    void delete(D target, Map arguments) {
+        getHibernateTemplate().execute { Session session ->
+            session.remove target
+            if (shouldFlush(arguments)) {
+                session.flush()
             }
         }
     }
 
     @Override
     boolean isAttached(D instance) {
-        hibernateTemplate.contains instance
+        getHibernateTemplate().contains instance
     }
 
     @Override
     D lock(D instance) {
-        hibernateTemplate.lock(instance, LockMode.PESSIMISTIC_WRITE)
+        getHibernateTemplate().lock(instance, LockMode.PESSIMISTIC_WRITE)
         instance
     }
 
     @Override
     D attach(D instance) {
-        hibernateTemplate.execute { Session session ->
+        getHibernateTemplate().execute { Session session ->
             HibernateAttachSupport.attach(instance, session)
         }
         return instance
     }
 
     @Override
-    D refresh(D instance) {
-        hibernateTemplate.refresh(instance)
-        return instance
+    void discard(D target) {
+        getHibernateTemplate().execute { Session session ->
+            if (sessionContains(session, target)) {
+                session.detach target
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    D refresh(D target) {
+        getHibernateTemplate().execute { Session session ->
+            session.refresh target
+        }
+        return target
+    }
+
+    D read(Serializable id) {
+        (D) getHibernateTemplate().execute { Session session ->
+            D instance = (D) session.get(persistentClass, id)
+            if (instance != null) {
+                session.setReadOnly(instance, true)
+            }
+            return instance
+        }
     }
 
     protected D performUpsert(D target, boolean shouldFlush) {
-        PersistentEntity entity = persistentEntity
-        String idPropertyName = entity.identity?.name ?: 'id'
-        Object idVal = InvokerHelper.getProperty(target, idPropertyName)
-        if (idVal == null) {
-            return performPersist(target, shouldFlush)
-        } else {
-            return performMerge(target, shouldFlush)
+        getHibernateTemplate().execute { Session session ->
+            if (sessionContains(session, target)) {
+                if (shouldFlush) {
+                    flushSession session
+                }
+                return target
+            } else {
+                PersistentProperty identityProperty = getGormPersistentEntity().identity
+                if (identityProperty == null) {
+                    // Composite ID entity — the user always supplies all key properties.
+                    // Hibernate merge() handles both the first-save (INSERT) and update (UPDATE) paths.
+                    return performMerge(target, shouldFlush)
+                }
+                Serializable id = (Serializable) InvokerHelper.getProperty(target, identityProperty.name)
+                if (id == null) {
+                    return performPersist(target, shouldFlush)
+                } else {
+                    return performMerge(target, shouldFlush)
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    protected void flushSession(Session session) {
+        HibernateDatastore datastore = getHibernateDatastore()
+        if (datastore.isOsivReadOnly(datastore.sessionFactory)) {
+            return
+        }
+        session.flush()
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Hibernate 7 changed {@code Session.contains()} to throw {@link IllegalArgumentException}
+     * when the supplied object's class is not a mapped entity in this session factory, instead of
+     * returning {@code false} as Hibernate 5 did.  All call sites in this class must go through
+     * this helper so they safely degrade to {@code false} for cross-datasource entities.
+     */
+    private static boolean sessionContains(Session session, Object target) {
+        try {
+            return session.contains(target)
+        } catch (IllegalArgumentException ignored) {
+            return false
         }
     }
 
     protected D performMerge(final D target, final boolean flush) {
-        hibernateTemplate.execute { Session session ->
+        getHibernateTemplate().execute { Session session ->
             D merged
-            if (session.contains(target)) {
-                // Entity is already managed in this session — merging would cause H7 to create
+            if (sessionContains(session, target)) {
                 // a second PersistentCollection for the same role+key ("two representations").
                 // Just use the entity as-is; dirty-checking + cascade will handle children.
                 merged = target
@@ -262,23 +528,28 @@ class HibernateGormInstanceApi<D> extends GormInstanceApi<D> {
                 merged = (D) session.merge(target)
                 session.lock(merged, LockModeType.NONE)
                 // Sync id back immediately so target has an identity
-                String idProp = persistentEntity.identity?.name ?: 'id'
+                PersistentEntity entity = getGormPersistentEntity()
+                String idProp = entity.identity?.name ?: 'id'
                 InvokerHelper.setProperty(target, idProp, InvokerHelper.getProperty(merged, idProp))
             }
             if (flush) {
                 flushSession session
             }
             // Sync version after flush so the incremented value is captured
-            PersistentProperty versionProperty = persistentEntity.version
+            PersistentEntity entity = getGormPersistentEntity()
+            PersistentProperty versionProperty = entity.version
             if (versionProperty != null) {
                 InvokerHelper.setProperty(target, versionProperty.name, InvokerHelper.getProperty(merged, versionProperty.name))
             }
-            return target
+            // Return the session-managed instance so callers can use it in subsequent session
+            // operations without triggering NonUniqueObjectException when the same entity
+            // is referenced again (e.g. as a cascade target or query parameter).
+            return merged
         }
     }
 
     protected D performPersist(final D target, final boolean shouldFlush) {
-        hibernateTemplate.execute { Session session ->
+        getHibernateTemplate().execute { Session session ->
             try {
                 markInsertActive()
                 session.persist target
@@ -308,12 +579,13 @@ class HibernateGormInstanceApi<D> extends GormInstanceApi<D> {
      */
     @SuppressWarnings('unchecked')
     private void reconcileCollections(Session session, D target) {
-        EntityReflector reflector = datastore.mappingContext.getEntityReflector(persistentEntity)
+        PersistentEntity entity = getGormPersistentEntity()
+        EntityReflector reflector = datastore.mappingContext.getEntityReflector(entity)
         if (reflector == null) return
 
         SessionImplementor si = (SessionImplementor) session
 
-        for (Association assoc in persistentEntity.associations) {
+        for (Association assoc in entity.associations) {
             if (!(assoc instanceof OneToMany) && !(assoc instanceof ManyToMany)) continue
 
             String propName = assoc.name
@@ -338,186 +610,39 @@ class HibernateGormInstanceApi<D> extends GormInstanceApi<D> {
         }
     }
 
-    protected static void flushSession(Session session) throws HibernateException {
-        try {
-            session.flush()
-        } catch (HibernateException e) {
-            session.setFlushMode(FlushModeType.COMMIT)
-            throw e
-        }
+    @CompileDynamic
+    protected void handleValidationError(PersistentEntity domainClass, D target, Errors errors) {
+        InvokerHelper.setProperty(target, GormProperties.ERRORS, errors)
     }
 
-    @SuppressWarnings('unchecked')
-    private void autoRetrieveAssociations(Datastore datastore, PersistentEntity entity, Object target) {
-        EntityReflector reflector = datastore.mappingContext.getEntityReflector(entity)
-        IHibernateTemplate t = this.hibernateTemplate
-        for (PersistentProperty prop in entity.associations) {
-            if (prop instanceof ToOne && !(prop instanceof Embedded)) {
-                ToOne toOne = (ToOne) prop
-                def propertyName = prop.name
-                def propValue = reflector.getProperty(target, propertyName)
-                if (propValue == null || t.contains(propValue)) {
-                    continue
-                }
-
-                PersistentEntity otherSide = toOne.associatedEntity
-                if (otherSide == null) continue
-
-                def identity = otherSide.identity
-                if (identity == null) continue
-
-                def otherSideReflector = datastore.mappingContext.getEntityReflector(otherSide)
-                try {
-                    def id = (Serializable) otherSideReflector.getProperty(propValue, identity.name)
-                    if (id) {
-                        final Object associatedInstance = t.get(prop.type, id)
-                        if (associatedInstance) {
-                            reflector.setProperty(target, propertyName, associatedInstance)
-                        }
-                    }
-                }
-                catch (InvalidPropertyException ignored) {
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    private static boolean shouldValidate(Map arguments, PersistentEntity entity) {
-        if (!entity) return false
-        if (arguments?.containsKey(ARGUMENT_VALIDATE)) {
-            return ClassUtils.getBooleanFromMap(ARGUMENT_VALIDATE, arguments)
-        }
-        return true
-    }
-
-    protected boolean shouldFlush(Map map) {
-        if (map?.containsKey(ARGUMENT_FLUSH)) {
-            return ClassUtils.getBooleanFromMap(ARGUMENT_FLUSH, map)
-        }
-        return autoFlush
-    }
-
-    protected boolean shouldFail(Map map) {
-        if (map?.containsKey(ARGUMENT_FAIL_ON_ERROR)) {
-            return ClassUtils.getBooleanFromMap(ARGUMENT_FAIL_ON_ERROR, map)
-        }
-        return failOnError
-    }
-
-    protected Object handleValidationError(PersistentEntity entity, final Object target, Errors errors) {
-        setObjectToReadOnly target
-        if (entity) {
-            for (Association association in entity.associations) {
-                if (association instanceof ToOne && !association instanceof Embedded) {
-                    def bean = new BeanWrapperImpl(target)
-                    def propertyValue = bean.getPropertyValue(association.name)
-                    if (propertyValue != null) {
-                        setObjectToReadOnly propertyValue
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-        }
-        setErrorsOnInstance target, errors
-        return null
+    @CompileDynamic
+    protected void markInsertActive() {
+        HibernateRuntimeUtils.markInsertActive()
     }
 
-    protected static void setErrorsOnInstance(Object target, Errors errors) {
-        if (target instanceof GormValidateable) {
-            ((GormValidateable) target).setErrors(errors)
-        } else {
-            ((GroovyObject) target).setProperty(GormProperties.ERRORS, errors)
-        }
-    }
-
-    static void markInsertActive() {
-        insertActiveThreadLocal.set(Boolean.TRUE)
+    @CompileDynamic
+    protected static void resetInsertActive() {
+        HibernateRuntimeUtils.resetInsertActive()
     }
 
-    static void resetInsertActive() {
-        insertActiveThreadLocal.remove()
-    }
-
-    // --- Dirty Checking Logic ---
-
-    boolean isDirty(D instance, String fieldName) {
-        SessionImplementor session = (SessionImplementor) sessionFactory.currentSession
-        EntityEntry entry = findEntityEntry(instance, session)
-        if (!entry || !entry.loadedState) return false
-
-        EntityPersister persister = entry.persister
-        Object[] values = persister.getValues(instance)
-        int[] dirtyProperties = findDirty(persister, values, entry, instance, session)
-        if (dirtyProperties == null) return false
-
-        String[] propertyNames = persister.getPropertyNames()
-        int fieldIndex = -1
-        for (int i = 0; i < propertyNames.length; i++) {
-            if (propertyNames[i] == fieldName) {
-                fieldIndex = i; break
-            }
-        }
-        return fieldIndex in dirtyProperties
+    @CompileDynamic
+    void setObjectToReadWrite(Object target) {
+        HibernateRuntimeUtils.setObjectToReadWrite(target, getHibernateDatastore().sessionFactory)
     }
 
-    boolean isDirty(D instance) {
-        SessionImplementor session = (SessionImplementor) sessionFactory.currentSession
-        EntityEntry entry = findEntityEntry(instance, session)
-        if (!entry || !entry.loadedState) return false
-
-        EntityPersister persister = entry.persister
-        Object[] currentState = persister.getValues(instance)
-        int[] dirtyPropertyIndexes = findDirty(persister, currentState, entry, instance, session)
-        return dirtyPropertyIndexes != null
+    @CompileDynamic
+    void setObjectToReadOnly(Object target) {
+        HibernateRuntimeUtils.setObjectToReadOnly(target, getHibernateDatastore().sessionFactory)
     }
 
-    List<String> getDirtyPropertyNames(D instance) {
-        SessionImplementor session = (SessionImplementor) sessionFactory.currentSession
-        EntityEntry entry = findEntityEntry(instance, session)
-        if (!entry || !entry.loadedState) return []
-
-        EntityPersister persister = entry.persister
-        Object[] currentState = persister.getValues(instance)
-        int[] dirtyPropertyIndexes = findDirty(persister, currentState, entry, instance, session)
-
-        List<String> names = []
-        String[] propertyNames = persister.getPropertyNames()
-        if (dirtyPropertyIndexes != null) {
-            for (int index : dirtyPropertyIndexes) {
-                names.add(propertyNames[index])
+    @CompileDynamic
+    protected void incrementVersion(Object target) {
+        PersistentEntity persistentEntity = getGormPersistentEntity()
+        if (persistentEntity.isVersioned() && target.hasProperty(GormProperties.VERSION)) {
+            Object version = target."${GormProperties.VERSION}"
+            if (version instanceof Long) {
+                target."${GormProperties.VERSION}" = ++((Long) version)
             }
         }
-        return names
-    }
-
-    Object getPersistentValue(D instance, String fieldName) {
-        SessionImplementor session = (SessionImplementor) sessionFactory.currentSession
-        def entry = findEntityEntry(instance, session, false)
-        if (!entry || !entry.loadedState) return null
-
-        EntityPersister persister = entry.persister
-        String[] propertyNames = persister.getPropertyNames()
-        int fieldIndex = propertyNames.findIndexOf { it == fieldName }
-        return fieldIndex == -1 ? null : entry.loadedState[fieldIndex]
-    }
-
-    // --- Helper Methods using proper Generic definitions to satisfy stubs ---
-
-    private static <T> int[] findDirty(EntityPersister persister, Object[] values, EntityEntry entry, T instance, SessionImplementor session) {
-        persister.findDirty(values, entry.loadedState, instance, session)
-    }
-
-    protected static <T> EntityEntry findEntityEntry(T instance, SessionImplementor session, boolean forDirtyCheck = true) {
-        def entry = session.persistenceContext.getEntry(instance)
-        if (!entry) return null
-        if (forDirtyCheck && !entry.requiresDirtyCheck(instance) && entry.loadedState) return null
-        return entry
-    }
-
-    void setObjectToReadWrite(Object target) {
-        GrailsHibernateUtil.setObjectToReadWrite(target, sessionFactory)
-    }
-
-    void setObjectToReadOnly(Object target) {
-        GrailsHibernateUtil.setObjectToReadyOnly(target, sessionFactory)
     }
 }
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormStaticApi.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormStaticApi.groovy
index b77b7e39c4..b58454d727 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormStaticApi.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormStaticApi.groovy
@@ -16,258 +16,215 @@
  *  specific language governing permissions and limitations
  *  under the License.
  */
-/*
- * Copyright 2013 the original author or authors.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
 package org.grails.orm.hibernate
 
+import groovy.transform.CompileDynamic
 import groovy.transform.CompileStatic
-import groovy.util.logging.Slf4j
 
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.query.Query as GormQuery
 
-import org.hibernate.Session
-import org.hibernate.SessionFactory
-import org.hibernate.jpa.AvailableHints
+import org.hibernate.FlushMode
 
 import org.springframework.core.convert.ConversionService
 import org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTransactionManager
 
 import grails.orm.HibernateCriteriaBuilder
-import grails.gorm.DetachedCriteria
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.DatastoreResolver
 import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormStaticApi
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.finders.DynamicFinder
 import org.grails.datastore.gorm.finders.FinderMethod
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.proxy.GroovyProxyFactory
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Datastore
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Session
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.SessionCallback
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.connections.ConnectionSource
-import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.connections.ConnectionSourcesProvider
-import org.grails.datastore.mapping.proxy.ProxyHandler
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.MappingContext
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentEntity
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentProperty
-import org.grails.datastore.mapping.query.api.BuildableCriteria as GrailsCriteria
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.config.GormProperties
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.types.Basic
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.types.Simple
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.query.Restrictions
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.query.api.BuildableCriteria
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.query.event.PostQueryEvent
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.query.event.PreQueryEvent
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.reflect.ClassUtils
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.domainbinding.hibernate.GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HibernateHqlQueryCreator
-import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HibernatePagedResultList
-import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.MutationHqlQuery
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HibernateQuery
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HibernateQueryArgument
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HqlListQueryBuilder
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HqlQueryContext
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.MutationHqlQuery
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.PagedResultList
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.support.HibernateRuntimeUtils
 
 /**
- * The implementation of the GORM static method contract for Hibernate
+ * Hibernate GORM static API.
  *
  * @author Graeme Rocher
  * @since 1.0
  */
-@Slf4j
 @CompileStatic
-//TODO Duplication!!
 class HibernateGormStaticApi<D> extends GormStaticApi<D> {
 
     protected GrailsHibernateTemplate hibernateTemplate
-    protected ConversionService conversionService
-    protected final HibernateSession hibernateSession
-    protected ProxyHandler proxyHandler
-    protected SessionFactory sessionFactory
-    protected Class identityType
-    protected ClassLoader classLoader
-    protected String qualifier
-    private HibernateGormInstanceApi<D> instanceApi
-
-    HibernateGormStaticApi(Class<D> persistentClass, HibernateDatastore datastore, List<FinderMethod> finders,
-                           ClassLoader classLoader, PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager, String qualifier = null) {
-        super(persistentClass, datastore, finders, transactionManager)
-        this.datastore = datastore
+    protected final ClassLoader classLoader
+
+    private static final Set<String> PAGINATION_ARGS = Collections.unmodifiableSet(new HashSet<>(Arrays.asList(
+            DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_MAX,
+            DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_OFFSET,
+            DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_SORT,
+            DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_ORDER,
+            DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_FETCH,
+            DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_IGNORE_CASE,
+            DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_FETCH_SIZE,
+            DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_TIMEOUT,
+            DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_READ_ONLY,
+            DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_FLUSH_MODE,
+            'cache'
+    )))
+
+    HibernateGormStaticApi(Class<D> persistentClass, HibernateDatastore datastore, List<FinderMethod> finders, DatastoreResolver datastoreResolver, String qualifier, ClassLoader classLoader) {
+        super(persistentClass, datastore.mappingContext, finders, datastoreResolver, qualifier)
         this.hibernateTemplate = (GrailsHibernateTemplate) datastore.getHibernateTemplate()
-        this.conversionService = datastore.mappingContext.conversionService
-        this.proxyHandler = datastore.mappingContext.proxyHandler
-        this.hibernateSession = new HibernateSession(
-                (HibernateDatastore) datastore,
-                hibernateTemplate.getSessionFactory()
-        )
         this.classLoader = classLoader
-        this.sessionFactory = datastore.getSessionFactory()
-        this.identityType = persistentEntity.identity?.type
-        this.instanceApi = new HibernateGormInstanceApi<>(persistentClass, datastore, classLoader)
-        this.qualifier = qualifier
     }
 
-    GrailsHibernateTemplate getHibernateTemplate() {
-        return hibernateTemplate as GrailsHibernateTemplate
+    HibernateGormStaticApi(Class<D> persistentClass, HibernateDatastore datastore, List<FinderMethod> finders, ClassLoader classLoader, DatastoreResolver datastoreResolver, String qualifier) {
+        this(persistentClass, datastore, finders, datastoreResolver, qualifier, classLoader)
     }
 
-    String getQualifier() {
-        if (qualifier != null) return qualifier
-        def dsNames = persistentEntity.mapping.mappedForm.datasources
-        if (dsNames) {
-            String first = dsNames[0]
-            if (first != ConnectionSource.DEFAULT && first != 'ALL') {
-                return first
-            }
-        }
-        null
+    HibernateGormStaticApi(Class<D> persistentClass, HibernateDatastore datastore, List<FinderMethod> finders, ClassLoader classLoader, PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager) {
+        this(persistentClass, datastore, finders, new DatastoreResolver() {
+            @Override Datastore resolve() { datastore }
+        }, ConnectionSource.DEFAULT, classLoader)
     }
 
-    GormStaticApi<D> getApi(String qualifier) {
-        (GormStaticApi<D>) HibernateGormEnhancer.findStaticApi(persistentClass, qualifier)
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    DetachedCriteria<D> where(Closure callable) {
-        new HibernateDetachedCriteria<D>(persistentClass).build(callable)
+    HibernateGormStaticApi(Class<D> persistentClass, MappingContext mappingContext, List<FinderMethod> finders, DatastoreResolver datastoreResolver, String qualifier, ClassLoader classLoader) {
+        super(persistentClass, mappingContext, finders, datastoreResolver, qualifier)
+        this.classLoader = classLoader
     }
 
-    @Override
-    DetachedCriteria<D> whereLazy(Closure callable) {
-        new HibernateDetachedCriteria<D>(persistentClass).buildLazy(callable)
+    protected HibernateDatastore getHibernateDatastore() {
+        (HibernateDatastore) getDatastore()
     }
 
-    @Override
-    DetachedCriteria<D> whereAny(Closure callable) {
-        (DetachedCriteria<D>) new HibernateDetachedCriteria<D>(persistentClass).or(callable)
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    D merge(D d) {
-        instanceApi.merge(d)
+    String getQualifier() {
+        return this.@qualifier
     }
 
-    @Override
-    <T> T withNewSession(Closure<T> callable) {
-        if (persistentEntity.isMultiTenant()) {
-            return ((HibernateDatastore) datastore).withNewSession(callable)
-        }
-        String q = getQualifier()
-        if (q != null && q != ConnectionSource.DEFAULT) {
-            return ((HibernateDatastore) datastore).withNewSession(q, callable)
+    protected IHibernateTemplate getHibernateTemplate() {
+        IHibernateTemplate template = (IHibernateTemplate) getHibernateDatastore().getHibernateTemplate()
+        String connectionName = getHibernateDatastore().connectionSources.defaultConnectionSource.name
+        if (qualifier != null && !connectionName.equals(qualifier) && !ConnectionSource.DEFAULT.equals(qualifier) && getHibernateDatastore().getMultiTenancyMode() == org.grails.datastore.mapping.multitenancy.MultiTenancySettings.MultiTenancyMode.DISCRIMINATOR) {
+            return new TenantBoundHibernateTemplate(template, (Serializable)qualifier, getHibernateDatastore())
         }
-        ((HibernateDatastore) datastore).withNewSession(callable)
+        return template
     }
 
     @Override
-    <T> T withSession(Closure<T> callable) {
-        if (persistentEntity.isMultiTenant()) {
-            return ((HibernateDatastore) datastore).withSession(callable)
-        }
-        String q = getQualifier()
-        if (q != null && q != ConnectionSource.DEFAULT) {
-            return ((HibernateDatastore) datastore).withSession(q, callable)
-        }
-        ((HibernateDatastore) datastore).withSession(callable)
+    BuildableCriteria createCriteria() {
+        HibernateDatastore ds = getHibernateDatastore()
+        new HibernateCriteriaBuilder(persistentClass, ds.sessionFactory, ds)
     }
 
-    D get(Serializable id) {
-        if (id == null) {
-            return null
-        }
-
+    @Override
+    boolean exists(Serializable id) {
+        if (id == null) return false
         id = convertIdentifier(id)
-
-        if (id == null) {
-            return null
-        }
-
-        if (persistentEntity.isMultiTenant()) {
-            // for multi-tenant entities we process get(..) via a query
-            (D) hibernateTemplate.execute { Session session ->
-                new HibernateQuery(hibernateSession, (GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity) persistentEntity).idEq(id).singleResult()
+        if (id == null) return false
+        PersistentEntity pe = getGormPersistentEntity()
+
+        return (Boolean) getHibernateTemplate().execute { org.hibernate.Session session ->
+            StringBuilder hql = new StringBuilder('select count(e) from ').append(pe.name).append(' e where ')
+            Map<String, Object> params = [:]
+
+            PersistentProperty identity = pe.getIdentity()
+            if (identity != null) {
+                hql.append('e.').append(identity.name).append(' = :id')
+                params.id = id
+            } else {
+                PersistentProperty[] compositeId = pe.getCompositeIdentity()
+                if (compositeId != null && compositeId.length > 0) {
+                    List<String> conditions = []
+                    for (prop in compositeId) {
+                        conditions << ("e.${prop.name} = :${prop.name}".toString())
+                        params[prop.name] = id[prop.name]
+                    }
+                    hql.append(conditions.join(' and '))
+                } else {
+                    return false
+                }
             }
-        } else {
-            // for non multi-tenant entities we process get(..) via the second level cache
-            (D) hibernateTemplate.execute { Session session -> session.find(persistentEntity.javaClass, id) }
-        }
-    }
 
-    D read(Serializable id) {
-        if (id == null) {
-            return null
+            org.hibernate.query.Query<Long> q = session.createQuery(hql.toString(), Long)
+            params.each { k, v -> q.setParameter(k, v) }
+            return q.uniqueResult() > 0L
         }
-        id = convertIdentifier(id)
-
-        if (id == null) {
-            return null
-        }
-
-        String hql = "from ${persistentEntity.name} where ${persistentEntity.identity.name} = :id"
-        Map<String, Object> args = [(AvailableHints.HINT_READ_ONLY): (Object) true]
-        proxyHandler.unwrap(doSingleInternal(hql, [id: id], [], args, false)) as D
     }
 
     @Override
-    D load(Serializable id) {
-        id = convertIdentifier(id)
-        if (id != null) {
-            return (D) hibernateTemplate.load((Class) persistentClass, id)
-        } else {
-            return null
-        }
-    }
+    HibernateGormStaticApi<D> forQualifier(String qualifier) {
+        Datastore ds = getDatastore()
+        if (ds == null) return this
 
-    @Override
-    D proxy(Serializable id) {
-        id = convertIdentifier(id)
-        if (id != null) {
-            // Use the configured MappingContext proxyFactory (e.g. GroovyProxyFactory) so proxies are created correctly
-            def proxyFactory = datastore.getMappingContext().getProxyFactory()
-            return (D) proxyFactory.createProxy(datastore.currentSession, (Class) persistentClass, id)
-        } else {
-            return null
+        org.grails.datastore.gorm.DatastoreResolver resolver = new org.grails.datastore.gorm.DatastoreResolver() {
+            @Override Datastore resolve() { org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry.instance.apiResolver.findDatastore(persistentClass, qualifier) }
         }
+        // Create new finders with the qualifier-specific resolver so dynamic finders (e.g. findByName)
+        // execute against the correct (non-DEFAULT) datasource session factory.
+        List<org.grails.datastore.gorm.finders.FinderMethod> qualifiedFinders =
+                registry.createDynamicFinders(resolver, ds.mappingContext)
+        HibernateGormStaticApi<D> newApi = new HibernateGormStaticApi<D>(persistentClass, ds.mappingContext, qualifiedFinders, resolver, qualifier, classLoader)
+        return newApi
     }
 
     @Override
-    List<D> getAll() {
-        doListInternal("from ${persistentEntity.name}".toString(), [:], [], [:], false)
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    Integer count() {
-        String entity = persistentEntity.name
-        doSingleInternal("select count(*) from $entity" as String, [:], [], [:], false) as Integer
+    def <T> T withSession(Closure<T> callable) {
+        getHibernateDatastore().withSession { session ->
+            callable.call(session)
+        }
     }
 
     @Override
-    boolean exists(Serializable id) {
-        def converted = convertIdentifier(id)
-        if (converted == null) return false
-        String entity = persistentEntity.name
-        String idName = persistentEntity.identity.name
-        (doSingleInternal("select count(*) from $entity where $idName = :id" as String, [id: converted], [], [:], false) as Long) > 0
+    def <T> T withNewSession(Closure<T> callable) {
+        getHibernateDatastore().withNewSession { session ->
+            callable.call(session)
+        }
     }
 
     @Override
-    D first(Map m) {
-        def list = list(m)
-        list.isEmpty() ? null : list.first()
+    def <T1> T1 withDatastoreSession(Closure<T1> callable) {
+        getHibernateDatastore().withSession { session ->
+            callable.call(new HibernateSession(getHibernateDatastore(), getHibernateDatastore().getSessionFactory(), (org.hibernate.Session)session))
+        }
     }
 
     @Override
-    D last(Map m) {
-        def list = list(m)
-        list.isEmpty() ? null : list.last()
+    def <T> T withNewSession(Serializable tenantId, Closure<T> callable) {
+        HibernateDatastore primaryDatastore = getHibernateDatastore().getPrimaryDatastore()
+        return (T) grails.gorm.multitenancy.Tenants.withId((org.grails.datastore.mapping.multitenancy.MultiTenantCapableDatastore)primaryDatastore, tenantId) { id, session ->
+            callable.call(session)
+        }
     }
 
     @Override
-    D find(CharSequence query, Map namedParams, Map args) {
-        doSingleInternal(query, namedParams, [], args, false)
+    List<D> list(Map params) {
+        PersistentEntity entity = getGormPersistentEntity()
+        HqlQueryContext ctx = HqlQueryContext.prepare(entity, null, null, null, params, new HashMap<>(), false, false)
+        GormQuery q = HibernateHqlQueryCreator.createHqlQuery(getHibernateDatastore(), getHibernateDatastore().getSessionFactory(), entity, ctx)
+        if (HqlListQueryBuilder.isPaged(params)) {
+            return (List<D>) new PagedResultList(q)
+        }
+        return (List<D>) q.list()
     }
 
     @Override
-    D find(CharSequence query, Collection positionalParams, Map args) {
-        doSingleInternal(query, [:], positionalParams, args, false)
+    List executeQuery(CharSequence query, Map params, Map args) {
+        PersistentEntity entity = getGormPersistentEntity()
+        HqlQueryContext ctx = HqlQueryContext.prepare(entity, query, params, null, args, new HashMap<>(), false, false)
+        return (List) HibernateHqlQueryCreator.createHqlQuery(getHibernateDatastore(), getHibernateDatastore().getSessionFactory(), entity, ctx).list()
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -303,6 +260,68 @@ class HibernateGormStaticApi<D> extends GormStaticApi<D> {
         doInternalExecuteUpdate(query, [:], [], [:])
     }
 
+    @Override
+    List executeQuery(CharSequence query, Map params) {
+        return executeQuery(query, params, params)
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    List executeQuery(CharSequence query, Collection params) {
+        return executeQuery(query, params, Collections.emptyMap())
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    List executeQuery(CharSequence query, Collection params, Map args) {
+        PersistentEntity entity = getGormPersistentEntity()
+        HqlQueryContext ctx = HqlQueryContext.prepare(entity, query, null, params, args, new HashMap<>(), false, false)
+        return (List) HibernateHqlQueryCreator.createHqlQuery(getHibernateDatastore(), getHibernateDatastore().getSessionFactory(), entity, ctx).list()
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    List executeQuery(CharSequence query, Object... params) {
+        return executeQuery(query, Arrays.asList(params))
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    grails.gorm.api.GormAllOperations<D> eachTenant(Closure callable) {
+        grails.gorm.multitenancy.Tenants.eachTenant((Class<? extends Datastore>)getDatastore().getClass()) { Serializable tenantId ->
+            withTenant(tenantId).withSession {
+                callable.call(tenantId)
+            }
+        }
+        return this
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    grails.gorm.api.GormAllOperations<D> withTenant(Serializable tenantId) {
+        HibernateDatastore hibernateDatastore = (HibernateDatastore) ((org.grails.datastore.mapping.multitenancy.MultiTenantCapableDatastore)getDatastore()).getDatastoreForTenantId(tenantId)
+        final org.grails.datastore.gorm.DatastoreResolver resolver = new org.grails.datastore.gorm.DatastoreResolver() {
+            @Override Datastore resolve() { hibernateDatastore }
+        }
+        return (grails.gorm.api.GormAllOperations<D>) new HibernateGormStaticApi<D>(persistentClass, hibernateDatastore, finders, resolver, tenantId.toString(), classLoader)
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    def <T1> T1 withTenant(Serializable tenantId, Closure<T1> callable) {
+        HibernateDatastore primaryDatastore = getHibernateDatastore().getPrimaryDatastore()
+        return (T1) grails.gorm.multitenancy.Tenants.withId((org.grails.datastore.mapping.multitenancy.MultiTenantCapableDatastore)primaryDatastore, tenantId) { id, session ->
+            if (callable.maximumNumberOfParameters == 2) {
+                callable.call(tenantId, session)
+            } else {
+                callable.call(session)
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    D find(CharSequence query, Map params, Map args) {
+        PersistentEntity entity = getGormPersistentEntity()
+        HqlQueryContext ctx = HqlQueryContext.prepare(entity, query, params, null, args, new HashMap<>(), false, false)
+        ctx.querySettings().put(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_MAX, 1)
+        List results = HibernateHqlQueryCreator.createHqlQuery(getHibernateDatastore(), getHibernateDatastore().getSessionFactory(), entity, ctx).list()
+        return results ? (D) results[0] : null
+    }
+
     @Override
     D find(CharSequence query) {
         doSingleInternal(query, [:], [], [:], false)
@@ -310,22 +329,36 @@ class HibernateGormStaticApi<D> extends GormStaticApi<D> {
 
     @Override
     D find(CharSequence query, Map params) {
-        doSingleInternal(query, params, [], params, false)
+        return find(query, params, Collections.emptyMap())
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    D find(CharSequence query, Collection params) {
+        return find(query, params, Collections.emptyMap())
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    D find(CharSequence query, Collection params, Map args) {
+        PersistentEntity entity = getGormPersistentEntity()
+        HqlQueryContext ctx = HqlQueryContext.prepare(entity, query, null, params, args, new HashMap<>(), false, false)
+        ctx.querySettings().put(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_MAX, 1)
+        List results = HibernateHqlQueryCreator.createHqlQuery(getHibernateDatastore(), getHibernateDatastore().getSessionFactory(), entity, ctx).list()
+        return results ? (D) results[0] : null
     }
 
     @Override
     List<D> findAll(CharSequence query, Map params) {
-        doListInternal(query, params, [], params, false)
+        return findAll(query, params, Collections.emptyMap())
     }
 
     @Override
-    List executeQuery(CharSequence query, Map args) {
-        doListInternal(query, args, [], args, false)
+    List<D> findAll(CharSequence query, Collection params) {
+        return findAll(query, params, Collections.emptyMap())
     }
 
     @Override
-    Integer executeUpdate(CharSequence query, Map args) {
-        doInternalExecuteUpdate(query, args, [], args)
+    List<D> findAll(CharSequence query, Object[] params) {
+        return findAll(query, Arrays.asList(params))
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -335,6 +368,58 @@ class HibernateGormStaticApi<D> extends GormStaticApi<D> {
     }
 
     @Override
+    @CompileDynamic
+    D read(Serializable id) {
+        if (id == null) return null
+        id = convertIdentifier(id)
+        if (id == null) return null
+        def template = getHibernateTemplate()
+        return (D) template.execute { org.hibernate.Session session ->
+            D entity = (D) session.get(persistentClass, id)
+            if (entity != null) {
+                session.setReadOnly(entity, true)
+            }
+            entity
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    @CompileDynamic
+    D proxy(Serializable id) {
+        if (id == null) return null
+        id = convertIdentifier(id)
+        if (id == null) return null
+        def proxyFactory = getHibernateDatastore().mappingContext.getProxyFactory()
+        if (proxyFactory instanceof GroovyProxyFactory) {
+            return execute({ org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Session session ->
+                session.proxy(persistentClass, id)
+            } as SessionCallback<D>)
+        }
+        return (D) getHibernateTemplate().load(persistentClass, id)
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    D load(Serializable id) {
+        if (id == null) return null
+        id = convertIdentifier(id)
+        if (id == null) return null
+        return (D) getHibernateTemplate().load(persistentClass, id)
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    @CompileDynamic
+    D last(Map params) {
+        Map p = new LinkedHashMap(params ?: [:])
+        if (!p.containsKey(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_ORDER)) {
+            p.put(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_ORDER, 'desc')
+        }
+        p.put(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_MAX, 1)
+        List<D> results = list(p)
+        results ? results.get(0) : null
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    @CompileDynamic
     List<D> findAllWhere(Map queryMap, Map args) {
         if (!queryMap) return null
         executeListHqlQuery(prepareWhereHqlQuery(queryMap, buildQuerySettings(args)))
@@ -353,17 +438,19 @@ class HibernateGormStaticApi<D> extends GormStaticApi<D> {
     }
 
     private String buildWhereHql(Map<String, Object> queryMap) {
+        PersistentEntity pe = gormPersistentEntity
         String whereClause = queryMap.collect { String key, Object value ->
             String propertyName = validateWherePropertyName(key)
             value == null ? "$propertyName is null" : "$propertyName = :$propertyName"
         }.join(' and ')
-        return "from ${persistentEntity.name} where $whereClause"
+        return "from ${pe.name} where $whereClause"
     }
 
     private String validateWherePropertyName(String propertyName) {
-        PersistentProperty property = persistentEntity.getPropertyByName(propertyName)
+        PersistentEntity pe = gormPersistentEntity
+        PersistentProperty property = pe.getPropertyByName(propertyName)
         if (property == null || property.name != propertyName) {
-            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Property [$propertyName] is not a valid property of ${persistentEntity.name}")
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Property [$propertyName] is not a valid property of ${pe.name}")
         }
         return propertyName
     }
@@ -384,14 +471,34 @@ class HibernateGormStaticApi<D> extends GormStaticApi<D> {
         return queryArgs
     }
 
+    @CompileDynamic
+    protected Serializable convertIdentifier(Serializable id) {
+        try {
+            PersistentEntity pe = getGormPersistentEntity()
+            PersistentProperty identity = pe.getIdentity()
+            Class identityType = identity != null ? identity.type : id.getClass()
+            if (!identityType.isInstance(id)) {
+                ConversionService conversionService = pe.mappingContext.conversionService
+                if (conversionService.canConvert(id.class, identityType)) {
+                    return (Serializable) conversionService.convert(id, identityType)
+                }
+                return null
+            }
+            return id
+        }
+        catch (Throwable e) {
+            return null
+        }
+    }
+
     @Override
-    List executeQuery(CharSequence query, Map namedParams, Map args) {
-        doListInternal(query, namedParams, [], args, false)
+    Integer executeUpdate(CharSequence query, Map params) {
+        return executeUpdate(query, params, Collections.emptyMap())
     }
 
     @Override
-    List executeQuery(CharSequence query, Collection positionalParams, Map args) {
-        return doListInternal(query, [:], positionalParams, args, false)
+    Integer executeUpdate(CharSequence query, Collection params) {
+        return executeUpdate(query, params, Collections.emptyMap())
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -401,9 +508,11 @@ class HibernateGormStaticApi<D> extends GormStaticApi<D> {
 
     private List<D> getAllInternal(List ids) {
         if (!ids) return []
+        PersistentEntity persistentEntity = gormPersistentEntity
         String idName = persistentEntity.identity.name
         String entity = persistentEntity.name
         Class<?> idType = persistentEntity.identity.type
+        ConversionService conversionService = persistentEntity.mappingContext.conversionService
         List convertedIds = ids.collect { HibernateRuntimeUtils.convertValueToType(it, idType, conversionService) }
         List<D> results = doListInternal("from $entity where $idName in (:ids)" as String, [ids: convertedIds], [], [:], false)
         Map<Object, D> byId = results.collectEntries { [(it[idName]): it] }
@@ -416,10 +525,10 @@ class HibernateGormStaticApi<D> extends GormStaticApi<D> {
     }
 
     protected List<D> doListInternal(CharSequence hql,
-                                   Map namedParams,
-                                   Collection positionalParams,
-                                   Map args
-                                    , boolean isNative) {
+                                     Map namedParams,
+                                     Collection positionalParams,
+                                     Map args,
+                                     boolean isNative) {
         GormQuery hqlQuery = prepareHqlQuery(hql, isNative, false, namedParams, positionalParams, args)
         executeListHqlQuery(hqlQuery)
     }
@@ -435,8 +544,8 @@ class HibernateGormStaticApi<D> extends GormStaticApi<D> {
     private D doSingleInternal(CharSequence hql,
                                Map namedParams,
                                Collection positionalParams,
-                               Map args, Map hints = [:], boolean isNative
-    ) {
+                               Map args,
+                               boolean isNative) {
         GormQuery hqlQuery = prepareHqlQuery(hql, isNative, false, namedParams, positionalParams, args)
         executeSingleHqlQuery(hqlQuery)
     }
@@ -470,94 +579,163 @@ class HibernateGormStaticApi<D> extends GormStaticApi<D> {
         return (Integer) execute
     }
 
-    @SuppressWarnings('GroovyAssignabilityCheck')
-    protected GormQuery prepareHqlQuery(CharSequence hql
-                                        , boolean isNative
-                                        , boolean isUpdate
-                                        , Map<String, Object> namedParams
-                                        , Collection<Object> positionalParams
-                                        , Map<String, Object> querySettings
-                                        , Map<String, Object> hints = [:]) {
-        if (hints.isEmpty() && querySettings != null) {
-            hints = querySettings.findAll { AvailableHints.getDefinedHints().contains(it.key) }
-        }
-        Map<String, Object> coercedParams = namedParams?.collectEntries { k, v -> [k.toString(), v] } ?: [:]
-        def ctx = HqlQueryContext.prepare(persistentEntity, hql, coercedParams, positionalParams, querySettings, hints, isNative, isUpdate)
-        return HibernateHqlQueryCreator.createHqlQuery(
-                (HibernateDatastore) datastore,
-                sessionFactory,
-                persistentEntity,
-                ctx
-        )
+    @Override
+    @CompileDynamic
+    List<D> findAll(D example, Map args) {
+        execute({ Session session ->
+            def query = session.createQuery(persistentClass)
+            populateQueryByExample(session, query, example)
+            if (query.allCriteria.isEmpty()) {
+                return null
+            }
+            Integer max = ClassUtils.getIntegerFromMap(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_MAX, args)
+            Integer offset = ClassUtils.getIntegerFromMap(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_OFFSET, args)
+            if (max != null) {
+                query.max(max.intValue())
+            }
+            if (offset != null) {
+                query.offset(offset.intValue())
+            }
+            query.list()
+        } as SessionCallback<List<D>>)
     }
 
-    protected Serializable convertIdentifier(Serializable id) {
-        def identity = persistentEntity.identity
-        if (identity != null) {
-            ConversionService conversionService = persistentEntity.mappingContext.conversionService
-            if (id != null) {
-                Class identityType = identity.type
-                Class idInstanceType = id.getClass()
-                if (identityType.isAssignableFrom(idInstanceType)) {
-                    return id
-                } else if (conversionService.canConvert(idInstanceType, identityType)) {
-                    try {
-                        return (Serializable) conversionService.convert(id, identityType)
-                    }
-                    catch (Throwable ignored) {
-                        return null
+    @Override
+    @CompileDynamic
+    D find(D example, Map args) {
+        execute({ Session session ->
+            def query = session.createQuery(persistentClass)
+            populateQueryByExample(session, query, example)
+            if (query.allCriteria.isEmpty()) {
+                return null
+            }
+            query.singleResult()
+        } as SessionCallback<D>)
+    }
+
+    protected void populateQueryByExample(Session session, GormQuery query, D example) {
+        PersistentEntity pe = getGormPersistentEntity()
+        MappingContext mappingContext = pe.mappingContext
+        def ea = mappingContext.createEntityAccess(pe, example)
+        def id = ea.getIdentifier()
+        if (id != null) {
+            query.add(Restrictions.eq(pe.identity.name, id))
+        }
+        else {
+            for (prop in pe.persistentProperties) {
+                if (prop.name == GormProperties.VERSION) {
+                    continue
+                }
+                if (prop instanceof Simple || prop instanceof Basic) {
+                    def val = ea.getProperty(prop.name)
+                    if (val != null) {
+                        query.add(Restrictions.eq(prop.name, val))
                     }
-                } else {
-                    return null
                 }
             }
         }
-        return id
     }
 
-    @Override
-    List<D> list(Map params = Collections.emptyMap()) {
-        firePreQueryEvent()
-        HqlListQueryBuilder builder = new HqlListQueryBuilder((GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity) persistentEntity, params)
-        String hql = builder.buildListHql()
-        HqlQueryContext ctx = HqlQueryContext.prepare(persistentEntity, hql, Collections.emptyMap(), Collections.emptyList(), params, new HashMap<String, Object>(), false, false)
-        GormQuery hqlQuery = HibernateHqlQueryCreator.createHqlQuery(
-                (HibernateDatastore) datastore,
-                sessionFactory,
-                persistentEntity,
-                ctx
-        )
-        if (params.containsKey('max')) {
-            return new HibernatePagedResultList(getHibernateTemplate(), persistentEntity, hqlQuery)
+    protected void populateQueryArguments(org.hibernate.query.Query q, Map args) {
+        if (args == null || args.isEmpty()) return
+
+        Map argsToUse = new HashMap(args)
+        Integer max = intValue(argsToUse, DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_MAX)
+        if (max != null) {
+            q.setMaxResults(max)
+        }
+        Integer offset = intValue(argsToUse, DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_OFFSET)
+        if (offset != null) {
+            q.setFirstResult(offset)
+        }
+
+        if (argsToUse.containsKey(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_CACHE)) {
+            q.setCacheable(org.grails.datastore.mapping.reflect.ClassUtils.getBooleanFromMap(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_CACHE, argsToUse))
+        }
+        if (argsToUse.containsKey(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_FETCH_SIZE)) {
+            Object fetchSize = argsToUse.remove(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_FETCH_SIZE)
+            if (fetchSize instanceof Number) {
+                q.setFetchSize(((Number) fetchSize).intValue())
+            }
+        }
+        if (argsToUse.containsKey(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_TIMEOUT)) {
+            Object timeout = argsToUse.remove(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_TIMEOUT)
+            if (timeout instanceof Number) {
+                q.setTimeout(((Number) timeout).intValue())
+            }
+        }
+        if (argsToUse.containsKey(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_READ_ONLY)) {
+            q.setReadOnly((Boolean) argsToUse.remove(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_READ_ONLY))
+        }
+        if (argsToUse.containsKey(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_FLUSH_MODE)) {
+            Object flushMode = argsToUse.remove(DynamicFinder.ARGUMENT_FLUSH_MODE)
+            if (flushMode instanceof FlushMode) {
+                q.setHibernateFlushMode((FlushMode) flushMode)
+            } else if (flushMode instanceof String) {
+                q.setHibernateFlushMode(FlushMode.valueOf(flushMode.toString().toUpperCase()))
+            }
         }
-        List<D> result = (List<D>) hqlQuery.list()
-        firePostQueryEvent(result)
-        result
     }
 
-    @Override
-    def propertyMissing(String name) {
-        if (datastore instanceof ConnectionSourcesProvider) {
-            return HibernateGormEnhancer.findStaticApi(persistentClass, name)
-        } else {
-            throw new MissingPropertyException(name, persistentClass)
+    protected Integer intValue(Map args, String name) {
+        Object val = args.get(name)
+        if (val instanceof Number) {
+            return ((Number) val).intValue()
+        } else if (val != null) {
+            try {
+                return Integer.valueOf(val.toString())
+            } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+                return null
+            }
+        }
+        return null
+    }
+
+    protected String buildOrdinalParameterQueryFromGString(GString query, List params) {
+        StringBuilder sqlString = new StringBuilder()
+        int i = 0
+        Object[] values = query.values
+        String[] strings = query.getStrings()
+        for (String str in strings) {
+            sqlString.append(str)
+            if (i < values.length) {
+                sqlString.append('?')
+                params.add(values[i++])
+            }
         }
+        return sqlString.toString()
     }
 
-    @Override
-    GrailsCriteria createCriteria() {
-        return new HibernateCriteriaBuilder(persistentClass, sessionFactory, (HibernateDatastore) datastore)
+    @SuppressWarnings('GroovyAssignabilityCheck')
+    protected GormQuery prepareHqlQuery(CharSequence hql,
+                                        boolean isNative,
+                                        boolean isUpdate,
+                                        Map namedParams,
+                                        Collection positionalParams,
+                                        Map args) {
+        PersistentEntity persistentEntity = gormPersistentEntity
+        Map<String, Object> coercedParams = namedParams?.collectEntries { k, v -> [k.toString(), v] } ?: [:]
+        Map<String, Object> coercedArgs = args?.collectEntries { k, v -> [k.toString(), v] } ?: [:]
+        def ctx = HqlQueryContext.prepare(persistentEntity, hql, coercedParams, positionalParams, coercedArgs, new HashMap<>(), isNative, isUpdate)
+        return HibernateHqlQueryCreator.createHqlQuery(
+                getHibernateDatastore(),
+                getHibernateDatastore().getSessionFactory(),
+                persistentEntity,
+                ctx
+        )
     }
 
     protected void firePostQueryEvent(Object result) {
-        def hibernateQuery = new HibernateQuery(new HibernateSession((HibernateDatastore) datastore, sessionFactory), (GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity) persistentEntity)
+        def hibernateSession = new HibernateSession(getHibernateDatastore(), getHibernateDatastore().getSessionFactory())
+        def hibernateQuery = new HibernateQuery(hibernateSession, (GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity) gormPersistentEntity)
         def list = result instanceof List ? (List) result : Collections.singletonList(result)
-        datastore.applicationEventPublisher.publishEvent(new PostQueryEvent(datastore, hibernateQuery, list))
+        getHibernateDatastore().applicationEventPublisher.publishEvent(new PostQueryEvent(getHibernateDatastore(), hibernateQuery, list))
     }
 
     protected void firePreQueryEvent() {
-        def hibernateSession = new HibernateSession((HibernateDatastore) datastore, sessionFactory)
-        def hibernateQuery = new HibernateQuery(hibernateSession, (GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity) persistentEntity)
-        datastore.applicationEventPublisher.publishEvent(new PreQueryEvent(datastore, hibernateQuery))
+        def hibernateSession = new HibernateSession(getHibernateDatastore(), getHibernateDatastore().getSessionFactory())
+        def hibernateQuery = new HibernateQuery(hibernateSession, (GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity) gormPersistentEntity)
+        getHibernateDatastore().applicationEventPublisher.publishEvent(new PreQueryEvent(getHibernateDatastore(), hibernateQuery))
     }
+
 }
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormValidationApi.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormValidationApi.groovy
index b34cf0c9b7..302911616c 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormValidationApi.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormValidationApi.groovy
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ import org.grails.datastore.mapping.engine.event.ValidationEvent
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.reflect.ClassUtils
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.validation.ValidationErrors
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.support.HibernateRuntimeUtils
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Datastore
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.MappingContext
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.DatastoreResolver
 
 @CompileStatic
 class HibernateGormValidationApi<D> extends GormValidationApi<D> {
@@ -56,15 +59,40 @@ class HibernateGormValidationApi<D> extends GormValidationApi<D> {
     public static final String ARGUMENT_DEEP_VALIDATE = 'deepValidate'
     private static final String ARGUMENT_EVICT = 'evict'
 
-    protected ClassLoader classLoader
-    protected HibernateDatastore datastore
+    protected final ClassLoader classLoader
     protected IHibernateTemplate hibernateTemplate
 
     HibernateGormValidationApi(Class<D> persistentClass, HibernateDatastore datastore, ClassLoader classLoader) {
         super(persistentClass, datastore)
         this.classLoader = classLoader
-        this.datastore = datastore
-        hibernateTemplate = (IHibernateTemplate) datastore.getHibernateTemplate()
+        this.hibernateTemplate = (IHibernateTemplate) datastore.getHibernateTemplate()
+    }
+
+    HibernateGormValidationApi(Class<D> persistentClass, MappingContext mappingContext, DatastoreResolver datastoreResolver, ClassLoader classLoader) {
+        super(persistentClass, mappingContext, datastoreResolver)
+        this.classLoader = classLoader
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    GormValidationApi<D> forQualifier(String qualifier) {
+        Datastore ds = getDatastore()
+        if (ds == null) return this
+        
+        org.grails.datastore.gorm.DatastoreResolver resolver = new org.grails.datastore.gorm.DatastoreResolver() {
+            @Override Datastore resolve() { org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry.instance.apiResolver.findDatastore(persistentClass, qualifier) }
+        }
+        return new HibernateGormValidationApi<D>(persistentClass, ds.mappingContext, resolver, classLoader)
+    }
+
+    protected HibernateDatastore getHibernateDatastore() {
+        (HibernateDatastore) getDatastore()
+    }
+
+    protected IHibernateTemplate getHibernateTemplate() {
+        if (this.hibernateTemplate == null) {
+            return (IHibernateTemplate) getHibernateDatastore().getHibernateTemplate()
+        }
+        return hibernateTemplate
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -96,14 +124,14 @@ class HibernateGormValidationApi<D> extends GormValidationApi<D> {
 
         fireEvent(instance, validatedFieldsList)
 
-        hibernateTemplate.execute { Session session ->
+        getHibernateTemplate().execute { Session session ->
             FlushMode previous = session.getHibernateFlushMode()
             session.setHibernateFlushMode(FlushMode.MANUAL)
             try {
                 if (validator instanceof CascadingValidator) {
                     ((CascadingValidator) validator).validate instance, errors, deepValidate
-                } else if (validator instanceof grails.gorm.validation.CascadingValidator) {
-                    ((grails.gorm.validation.CascadingValidator) validator).validate instance, errors, deepValidate
+                } else if (validator instanceof org.grails.datastore.gorm.validation.CascadingValidator) {
+                    ((org.grails.datastore.gorm.validation.CascadingValidator) validator).validate instance, errors, deepValidate
                 } else {
                     validator.validate instance, errors
                 }
@@ -120,8 +148,8 @@ class HibernateGormValidationApi<D> extends GormValidationApi<D> {
         if (errors.hasErrors()) {
             valid = false
             if (evict) {
-                if (hibernateTemplate.contains(instance)) {
-                    hibernateTemplate.evict(instance)
+                if (getHibernateTemplate().contains(instance)) {
+                    getHibernateTemplate().evict(instance)
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -134,9 +162,9 @@ class HibernateGormValidationApi<D> extends GormValidationApi<D> {
     }
 
     private void fireEvent(Object target, List<?> validatedFieldsList) {
-        ValidationEvent event = new ValidationEvent(datastore, target)
+        ValidationEvent event = new ValidationEvent(getHibernateDatastore(), target)
         event.setValidatedFields(validatedFieldsList)
-        datastore.getApplicationEventPublisher().publishEvent(event)
+        getHibernateDatastore().getApplicationEventPublisher().publishEvent(event)
     }
 
     @SuppressWarnings('rawtypes')
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateSession.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateSession.java
index 08b45e0836..99258d9b51 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateSession.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateSession.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 
@@ -37,14 +38,18 @@ import org.hibernate.proxy.HibernateProxy;
 import org.hibernate.query.MutationQuery;
 
 import org.springframework.context.ApplicationEventPublisher;
+import org.springframework.core.convert.ConversionService;
 import org.springframework.transaction.TransactionDefinition;
 import org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationManager;
 
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.proxy.GroovyProxyFactory;
 import org.grails.datastore.gorm.timestamp.DefaultTimestampProvider;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.AbstractAttributeStoringSession;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Datastore;
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.connections.ConnectionSource;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.engine.Persister;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.MappingContext;
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentEntity;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentProperty;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.config.GormProperties;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.proxy.ProxyHandler;
@@ -60,6 +65,7 @@ import org.grails.datastore.mapping.transactions.Transaction;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.domainbinding.hibernate.GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.domainbinding.hibernate.HibernatePersistentEntity;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.proxy.HibernateProxyHandler;
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HibernateHqlQuery;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HibernateHqlQueryCreator;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HibernateQuery;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HqlQueryContext;
@@ -84,12 +90,19 @@ public class HibernateSession extends AbstractAttributeStoringSession implements
     /** The hibernate template. */
     protected IHibernateTemplate hibernateTemplate;
 
+    protected Session nativeSession;
+
     ProxyHandler proxyHandler = new HibernateProxyHandler();
     DefaultTimestampProvider timestampProvider;
 
     public HibernateSession(HibernateDatastore hibernateDatastore, SessionFactory sessionFactory) {
+        this(hibernateDatastore, sessionFactory, null);
+    }
+
+    public HibernateSession(HibernateDatastore hibernateDatastore, SessionFactory sessionFactory, Session nativeSession) {
         datastore = hibernateDatastore;
         hibernateTemplate = (IHibernateTemplate) hibernateDatastore.getHibernateTemplate();
+        this.nativeSession = nativeSession;
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -103,13 +116,16 @@ public class HibernateSession extends AbstractAttributeStoringSession implements
     }
 
     @Override
-    public boolean isConnected() {
-        return connected;
+    public void disconnect() {
+        connected = false;
+        if (nativeSession != null && nativeSession.isOpen()) {
+            nativeSession.close();
+        }
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void disconnect() {
-        connected = false; // don't actually do any disconnection here. This will be handled by OSVI
+    public boolean isConnected() {
+        return connected;
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -209,11 +225,42 @@ public class HibernateSession extends AbstractAttributeStoringSession implements
 
     @Override
     public <T> T retrieve(Class<T> type, Serializable key) {
-        return getHibernateTemplate().execute(session -> session.find(type, key));
+        if (key == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        PersistentEntity entity = getMappingContext().getPersistentEntity(type.getName());
+        if (entity != null) {
+            PersistentProperty identity = entity.getIdentity();
+            if (identity != null && !identity.getType().isAssignableFrom(key.getClass())) {
+                ConversionService conversionService = getMappingContext().getConversionService();
+                if (conversionService.canConvert(key.getClass(), identity.getType())) {
+                    try {
+                        key = (Serializable) conversionService.convert(key, identity.getType());
+                    } catch (Exception ignored) {
+                        return null;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        final Serializable finalKey = key;
+        return getHibernateTemplate().execute(session -> {
+            try {
+                return session.find(type, finalKey);
+            } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+                return null;
+            }
+        });
     }
 
     @Override
     public <T> T proxy(Class<T> type, Serializable key) {
+        if (key == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        var proxyFactory = getMappingContext().getProxyFactory();
+        if (proxyFactory instanceof GroovyProxyFactory groovyProxyFactory) {
+            return groovyProxyFactory.createProxy(this, type, key);
+        }
         return hibernateTemplate.load(type, key);
     }
 
@@ -281,6 +328,13 @@ public class HibernateSession extends AbstractAttributeStoringSession implements
         return hibernateTemplate;
     }
 
+    public Session getNativeSession() {
+        if (nativeSession != null) {
+            return nativeSession;
+        }
+        return hibernateTemplate.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession();
+    }
+
     @Override
     public void setSynchronizedWithTransaction(boolean synchronizedWithTransaction) {
         // no-op
@@ -386,21 +440,43 @@ public class HibernateSession extends AbstractAttributeStoringSession implements
         });
     }
 
-    @Override
-    @SuppressWarnings({"PMD.DataflowAnomalyAnalysis"})
-    //TODO Cleanup
+    private static Object coerceId(Object key, Class<?> idType) {
+        if (key == null || idType == null || idType.isInstance(key)) {
+            return key;
+        }
+        if (key instanceof String s) {
+            if (idType == Long.class) return Long.parseLong(s);
+            if (idType == Integer.class) return Integer.parseInt(s);
+        }
+        return key;
+    }
+
     public List retrieveAll(final Class type, final Iterable keys) {
         final GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity persistentEntity = (GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity) getMappingContext().getPersistentEntity(type.getName());
         final String entityName = persistentEntity.getName();
         final String idName = persistentEntity.getIdentity().getName();
+        final Class<?> idType = persistentEntity.getIdentity().getType();
+
+        // Collect input keys preserving order, coercing to the entity's ID type
+        List<Object> inputKeys = new ArrayList<>();
+        for (Object k : keys) {
+            inputKeys.add(coerceId(k, idType));
+        }
+        if (inputKeys.isEmpty()) {
+            return Collections.emptyList();
+        }
+        // Determine the unique set of keys for the HQL IN query
+        Collection<Object> uniqueKeys = new LinkedHashMap<Object, Object>() {{
+                for (Object k : inputKeys) { put(k, k); }
+            }}.keySet();
+
         final String hql = "from " + entityName + " as e where e." + idName + " in (:keys)";
 
-        return getHibernateTemplate().execute(session -> {
-            // Prepare the HqlQueryContext using our manual HQL string and type override
+        Map<Object, Object> entityById = getHibernateTemplate().execute(session -> {
             HqlQueryContext queryContext = HqlQueryContext.prepare(
                 persistentEntity,
                 hql,
-                Map.of("keys", getIterableAsCollection(keys)),
+                Map.of("keys", uniqueKeys),
                 null,
                 null,
                 new HashMap<>(),
@@ -409,13 +485,45 @@ public class HibernateSession extends AbstractAttributeStoringSession implements
                 type
             );
 
-            return HibernateHqlQueryCreator.createHqlQuery(
+            List fetched = HibernateHqlQueryCreator.createHqlQuery(
                 (HibernateDatastore) getDatastore(),
                 getHibernateTemplate().getSessionFactory(),
                 persistentEntity,
                 queryContext
             ).list();
+
+            Map<Object, Object> byId = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+            org.hibernate.Session nativeSession = session;
+            for (Object entity : fetched) {
+                Object id = nativeSession.getIdentifier(entity);
+                byId.put(id, entity);
+            }
+            return byId;
         });
+
+        // Build result list in input order, with null for missing IDs
+        List<Object> result = new ArrayList<>(inputKeys.size());
+        for (Object k : inputKeys) {
+            result.add(entityById.get(k));
+        }
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    public Query createQuery(String queryString) {
+        return createQuery(queryString, null);
+    }
+
+    public Query createQuery(String queryString, Class resultType) {
+        String trimmed = queryString.trim().toLowerCase(java.util.Locale.ENGLISH);
+        if (trimmed.startsWith("delete") || trimmed.startsWith("update")) {
+            org.hibernate.query.MutationQuery q = getNativeSession().createMutationQuery(queryString);
+            return new HibernateHqlQuery(this, null, q);
+        } else {
+            org.hibernate.query.Query q = resultType != null ?
+                    getNativeSession().createQuery(queryString, resultType) :
+                    getNativeSession().createQuery(queryString);
+            return new HibernateHqlQuery(this, null, q);
+        }
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -455,13 +563,16 @@ public class HibernateSession extends AbstractAttributeStoringSession implements
 
     //TODO could be used
     protected <D> HibernateGormStaticApi<D> getStaticApi(Class<D> type) {
-        return new HibernateGormStaticApi<>(
+        HibernateDatastore datastore = (HibernateDatastore) getDatastore();
+        return new HibernateGormStaticApi<D>(
             type,
-            (HibernateDatastore) getDatastore(),
+            datastore,
             Collections.emptyList(),
-            Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(),
-            ((HibernateDatastore) getDatastore()).getTransactionManager(),
-            null
+            new org.grails.datastore.gorm.DatastoreResolver() {
+                @Override public Datastore resolve() { return getDatastore(); }
+            },
+            ConnectionSource.DEFAULT,
+            ((HibernateDatastore) getDatastore()).getMappingContext().getMappingFactory().getClass().getClassLoader()
         );
     }
 }
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateSessionResolver.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateSessionResolver.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9fe61bf3b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateSessionResolver.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+/*
+ *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ *  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ *  distributed with this work for additional information
+ *  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ *  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ *  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ *  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ *  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ *  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ *  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ *  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ *  under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.grails.orm.hibernate
+
+import groovy.transform.CompileStatic
+
+import org.hibernate.SessionFactory
+
+import org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationManager
+
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Session
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.SessionResolver
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.support.hibernate7.SessionHolder
+
+/**
+ * Hibernate 7 specific SessionResolver
+ *
+ * @author borinquenkid
+ * @since 8.0
+ */
+@CompileStatic
+class HibernateSessionResolver implements SessionResolver<Session> {
+
+    private final SessionFactory sessionFactory
+    private final HibernateDatastore datastore
+
+    HibernateSessionResolver(HibernateDatastore datastore, SessionFactory sessionFactory) {
+        this.datastore = datastore
+        this.sessionFactory = sessionFactory
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    Session resolve() {
+        // 1. Try to find a GORM session bound to the datastore
+        Object resource = TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(datastore)
+        if (resource instanceof org.grails.datastore.mapping.transactions.SessionHolder) {
+            return ((org.grails.datastore.mapping.transactions.SessionHolder) resource).getSession()
+        }
+
+        // 2. Fallback to native Hibernate session bound to the datastore (legacy Grails binding)
+        if (resource instanceof SessionHolder) {
+            return new HibernateSession(datastore, sessionFactory)
+        }
+
+        // 3. Fallback to native Hibernate session bound to the session factory
+        resource = TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(sessionFactory)
+        if (resource instanceof SessionHolder) {
+            return new HibernateSession(datastore, sessionFactory)
+        }
+        
+        return null
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    Session resolve(String qualifier) {
+        // Implementation for multi-datasource routing
+        return datastore.getDatastoreForConnection(qualifier).getSessionResolver().resolve()
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    void bind(Session session) {
+        if (session instanceof HibernateSession) {
+            TransactionSynchronizationManager.bindResource(sessionFactory, new SessionHolder(((HibernateSession) session).getNativeSession()))
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    void unbind() {
+        TransactionSynchronizationManager.unbindResource(sessionFactory)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/SchemaTenantGormEnhancer.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/SchemaTenantGormEnhancer.java
index c5e11ba047..8a2913ad2e 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/SchemaTenantGormEnhancer.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/SchemaTenantGormEnhancer.java
@@ -42,20 +42,18 @@ public class SchemaTenantGormEnhancer extends HibernateGormEnhancer {
     private final HibernateConnectionSource defaultConnectionSource;
     private final TenantResolver tenantResolver;
     private final SchemaHandler schemaHandler;
-    private final Map<String, HibernateDatastore> datastoresByConnectionSource;
 
     public SchemaTenantGormEnhancer(
-            Datastore datastore,
+            HibernateDatastore datastore,
             PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager,
             HibernateConnectionSource defaultConnectionSource,
             TenantResolver tenantResolver,
             SchemaHandler schemaHandler,
             Map<String, HibernateDatastore> datastoresByConnectionSource) {
-        super(datastore, transactionManager, defaultConnectionSource.getSettings());
+        super(datastore, transactionManager, defaultConnectionSource.getSettings(), datastoresByConnectionSource);
         this.defaultConnectionSource = defaultConnectionSource;
         this.tenantResolver = tenantResolver;
         this.schemaHandler = schemaHandler;
-        this.datastoresByConnectionSource = datastoresByConnectionSource;
         // super() calls registerEntity → allQualifiers before our fields are set.
         // Re-register now that all fields are initialized so schema qualifiers are wired correctly.
         for (PersistentEntity entity : datastore.getMappingContext().getPersistentEntities()) {
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/TenantBoundHibernateTemplate.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/TenantBoundHibernateTemplate.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7512d2c43a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/TenantBoundHibernateTemplate.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
+/*
+ *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ *  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ *  distributed with this work for additional information
+ *  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ *  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ *  'License'); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ *  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ *  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ *  'AS IS' BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ *  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ *  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ *  under the License.
+ */
+package org.grails.orm.hibernate
+
+import groovy.transform.CompileStatic
+import org.hibernate.LockMode
+import org.hibernate.SessionFactory
+import org.hibernate.query.Query
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.multitenancy.MultiTenantCapableDatastore
+import grails.gorm.multitenancy.Tenants
+
+/**
+ * A {@link IHibernateTemplate} implementation that binds a tenant id for the duration of the execution
+ *
+ * @author Graeme Rocher
+ * @since 6.0
+ */
+@CompileStatic
+class TenantBoundHibernateTemplate implements IHibernateTemplate {
+
+    private final IHibernateTemplate delegate
+    private final Serializable tenantId
+    private final MultiTenantCapableDatastore datastore
+
+    TenantBoundHibernateTemplate(IHibernateTemplate delegate, Serializable tenantId, MultiTenantCapableDatastore datastore) {
+        this.delegate = delegate
+        this.tenantId = tenantId
+        this.datastore = datastore
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    void persist(Object o) {
+        Tenants.withId(datastore, tenantId) {
+            delegate.persist(o)
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    Object merge(Object o) {
+        return Tenants.withId(datastore, tenantId) {
+            delegate.merge(o)
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    void refresh(Object o) {
+        Tenants.withId(datastore, tenantId) {
+            delegate.refresh(o)
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    void lock(Object o, LockMode lockMode) {
+        Tenants.withId(datastore, tenantId) {
+            delegate.lock(o, lockMode)
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    void flush() {
+        delegate.flush()
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    void clear() {
+        delegate.clear()
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    void evict(Object o) {
+        delegate.evict(o)
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    boolean contains(Object o) {
+        delegate.contains(o)
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    int getFlushMode() {
+        delegate.getFlushMode()
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    void setFlushMode(int mode) {
+        delegate.setFlushMode(mode)
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    void deleteAll(Collection<?> list) {
+        Tenants.withId(datastore, tenantId) {
+            delegate.deleteAll(list)
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    void applySettings(Query<?> query) {
+        delegate.applySettings(query)
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    <T> T get(Class<T> type, Serializable key) {
+        return (T) Tenants.withId(datastore, tenantId) {
+            delegate.get(type, key)
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    <T> T get(Class<T> type, Serializable key, LockMode mode) {
+        return (T) Tenants.withId(datastore, tenantId) {
+            delegate.get(type, key, mode)
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    <T> T load(Class<T> type, Serializable key) {
+        return (T) Tenants.withId(datastore, tenantId) {
+            delegate.load(type, key)
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    void remove(Object o) {
+        Tenants.withId(datastore, tenantId) {
+            delegate.remove(o)
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
+        delegate.getSessionFactory()
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    <T> T execute(Closure<T> callable) {
+        return Tenants.withId(datastore, tenantId) {
+            delegate.execute(callable)
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    <T> T executeWithNewSession(Closure<T> callable) {
+        return Tenants.withId(datastore, tenantId) {
+            delegate.executeWithNewSession(callable)
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    <T1> T1 executeWithExistingOrCreateNewSession(SessionFactory sessionFactory, Closure<T1> callable) {
+        return Tenants.withId(datastore, tenantId) {
+            delegate.executeWithExistingOrCreateNewSession(sessionFactory, callable)
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/GrailsHibernateUtil.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/GrailsHibernateUtil.java
index 785f108722..2dd73a5d88 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/GrailsHibernateUtil.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/GrailsHibernateUtil.java
@@ -130,7 +130,12 @@ public class GrailsHibernateUtil extends HibernateRuntimeUtils {
     }
 
     private static boolean canModifyReadWriteState(Session session, Object target) {
-        return session.contains(target) && Hibernate.isInitialized(target);
+        try {
+            return session.contains(target) && Hibernate.isInitialized(target);
+        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+            // Hibernate 7: session.contains() throws when the class is not a known entity type
+            return false;
+        }
     }
 
     /**
@@ -143,6 +148,9 @@ public class GrailsHibernateUtil extends HibernateRuntimeUtils {
      */
     @SuppressWarnings({"PMD.CloseResource", "PMD.DataflowAnomalyAnalysis"})
     public static void setObjectToReadWrite(final Object target, SessionFactory sessionFactory) {
+        if (target == null || sessionFactory == null) {
+            return;
+        }
         Session session = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
         if (!canModifyReadWriteState(session, target)) {
             return;
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/HibernateMappingContext.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/HibernateMappingContext.java
index 485332ba19..93cdca039a 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/HibernateMappingContext.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/HibernateMappingContext.java
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ import grails.gorm.hibernate.HibernateEntity;
 import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormEntity;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.AbstractMappingContext;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.MappingConfigurationStrategy;
-import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.MappingFactory;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentEntity;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.domainbinding.hibernate.GrailsJpaMappingConfigurationStrategy;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.domainbinding.hibernate.HibernateEmbeddedPersistentEntity;
@@ -81,7 +80,7 @@ public class HibernateMappingContext extends AbstractMappingContext {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public MappingFactory<?, ?> getMappingFactory() {
+    public HibernateMappingFactory getMappingFactory() {
         return mappingFactory;
     }
 
@@ -125,6 +124,7 @@ public class HibernateMappingContext extends AbstractMappingContext {
         return persistentEntities.stream()
                 .filter(HibernatePersistentEntity.class::isInstance)
                 .map(HibernatePersistentEntity.class::cast)
+                .filter(hibernateEntity -> hibernateEntity.usesConnectionSource(dataSourceName))
                 .peek(hibernateEntity -> hibernateEntity.setDataSourceName(dataSourceName))
                 .toList();
     }
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/HibernateMappingContextConfiguration.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/HibernateMappingContextConfiguration.java
index 4429b96322..cfc11b0fcd 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/HibernateMappingContextConfiguration.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/HibernateMappingContextConfiguration.java
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ import org.grails.orm.hibernate.GrailsSessionContext;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.HibernateEventListeners;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.MetadataIntegrator;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.domainbinding.binder.GrailsDomainBinder;
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.domainbinding.hibernate.GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity;
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.domainbinding.hibernate.HibernatePersistentEntity;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.domainbinding.util.NamingStrategyProvider;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.proxy.GrailsBytecodeProvider;
 
@@ -310,9 +312,9 @@ public class HibernateMappingContextConfiguration extends Configuration
                 hibernateMappingContext.getMappingCacheHolder());
 
         List<Class> annotatedClasses = new ArrayList<>();
-        for (PersistentEntity persistentEntity : hibernateMappingContext.getPersistentEntities()) {
+        for (HibernatePersistentEntity persistentEntity : hibernateMappingContext.getHibernatePersistentEntities(dataSourceName)) {
             Class<?> javaClass = persistentEntity.getJavaClass();
-            if (javaClass.isAnnotationPresent(Entity.class)) {
+            if (javaClass.isAnnotationPresent(Entity.class) || javaClass.isAnnotationPresent(grails.gorm.annotation.Entity.class)) {
                 annotatedClasses.add(javaClass);
             }
         }
@@ -320,7 +322,12 @@ public class HibernateMappingContextConfiguration extends Configuration
         if (!additionalClasses.isEmpty()) {
             for (Class additionalClass : additionalClasses) {
                 if (GormEntity.class.isAssignableFrom(additionalClass)) {
-                    hibernateMappingContext.addPersistentEntity(additionalClass);
+                    PersistentEntity pe = hibernateMappingContext.addPersistentEntity(additionalClass);
+                    if (pe instanceof GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity && ((GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity) pe).usesConnectionSource(dataSourceName)) {
+                        if (additionalClass.isAnnotationPresent(Entity.class) || additionalClass.isAnnotationPresent(grails.gorm.annotation.Entity.class)) {
+                            annotatedClasses.add(additionalClass);
+                        }
+                    }
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/domainbinding/binder/GrailsDomainBinder.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/domainbinding/binder/GrailsDomainBinder.java
index c4ae455288..52adfdc0a6 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/domainbinding/binder/GrailsDomainBinder.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/domainbinding/binder/GrailsDomainBinder.java
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ public class GrailsDomainBinder implements AdditionalMappingContributor, TypeCon
 
         hibernateMappingContext.getHibernatePersistentEntities(dataSourceName).stream()
                 .filter(persistentEntity -> persistentEntity.forGrailsDomainMapping(dataSourceName))
-                .forEach(rootBinder::bindRoot);
+                .forEach(entity -> rootBinder.bindRoot(entity));
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/dirty/GrailsEntityDirtinessStrategy.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/dirty/GrailsEntityDirtinessStrategy.groovy
index db98d1be36..e9c511127e 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/dirty/GrailsEntityDirtinessStrategy.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/dirty/GrailsEntityDirtinessStrategy.groovy
@@ -16,26 +16,14 @@
  *  specific language governing permissions and limitations
  *  under the License.
  */
-/*
- * Copyright 2004-2005 the original author or authors.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
 package org.grails.orm.hibernate.dirty
 
 import groovy.transform.CompileStatic
 
 import org.hibernate.CustomEntityDirtinessStrategy
+import org.hibernate.CustomEntityDirtinessStrategy.AttributeChecker
+import org.hibernate.CustomEntityDirtinessStrategy.AttributeInformation
+import org.hibernate.CustomEntityDirtinessStrategy.DirtyCheckContext
 import org.hibernate.Hibernate
 import org.hibernate.Session
 import org.hibernate.engine.spi.EntityEntry
@@ -45,16 +33,15 @@ import org.hibernate.persister.entity.EntityPersister
 import org.slf4j.Logger
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory
 
-import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormEnhancer
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.dirty.checking.DirtyCheckable
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.dirty.checking.DirtyCheckingSupport
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentEntity
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentProperty
-import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.config.GormProperties
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.types.Embedded
 
 /**
- * A class to customize Hibernate dirtiness based on Grails {@link DirtyCheckable} interface
+ * Implementation of the {@link CustomEntityDirtinessStrategy} interface for Grails
  *
  * @author James Kleeh
  * @author Graeme Rocher
@@ -73,7 +60,10 @@ class GrailsEntityDirtinessStrategy implements CustomEntityDirtinessStrategy {
 
     @Override
     boolean isDirty(Object entity, EntityPersister persister, Session session) {
-        !session.contains(entity) || cast(entity).hasChanged() || DirtyCheckingSupport.areEmbeddedDirty(GormEnhancer.findEntity(Hibernate.getClass(entity)), entity)
+        DirtyCheckable dirtyCheckable = cast(entity)
+        PersistentEntity persistentEntity = GormRegistry.instance.apiResolver.findEntity(Hibernate.getClass(entity))
+        boolean dirty = !session.contains(entity) || dirtyCheckable.hasChanged() || (persistentEntity != null && DirtyCheckingSupport.areEmbeddedDirty(persistentEntity, entity))
+        return dirty
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -81,7 +71,7 @@ class GrailsEntityDirtinessStrategy implements CustomEntityDirtinessStrategy {
         if (canDirtyCheck(entity, persister, session)) {
             cast(entity).trackChanges()
             try {
-                PersistentEntity persistentEntity = GormEnhancer.findEntity(Hibernate.getClass(entity))
+                PersistentEntity persistentEntity = GormRegistry.instance.apiResolver.findEntity(Hibernate.getClass(entity))
                 if (persistentEntity != null) {
                     resetDirtyEmbeddedObjects(persistentEntity, entity, persister, session)
                 }
@@ -110,34 +100,53 @@ class GrailsEntityDirtinessStrategy implements CustomEntityDirtinessStrategy {
     @Override
     void findDirty(Object entity, EntityPersister persister, Session session, DirtyCheckContext dirtyCheckContext) {
         if (!(entity instanceof DirtyCheckable)) return
+
+        SessionImplementor si = (SessionImplementor) session
         Status status = getStatus(session, entity)
         DirtyCheckable dirtyCheckable = cast(entity)
+
         dirtyCheckContext.doDirtyChecking({ AttributeInformation info ->
             // new object not yet in session — always dirty
-            if (status == null) return true
-            // deleted/gone/loading — not dirty
-            if (status != Status.MANAGED) return false
-            // lastUpdated is refreshed whenever anything changes
-            if (GormProperties.LAST_UPDATED == info.name) return dirtyCheckable.hasChanged()
-            // property-level check
-            if (dirtyCheckable.hasChanged(info.name)) return true
-            // embedded component — delegate to the embedded object's dirty tracking
-            PersistentProperty prop = GormEnhancer.findEntity(Hibernate.getClass(entity))?.getPropertyByName(info.name)
-            if (prop instanceof Embedded) {
-                def val = prop.reader.read(entity)
-                return val instanceof DirtyCheckable && val.hasChanged()
+            if (status == null) {
+                return true
             }
+
+            // session is read-only, so no need to check
+            if (status == Status.READ_ONLY) {
+                return false
+            }
+
+            final String propertyName = info.getName()
+            if (dirtyCheckable.hasChanged(propertyName)) {
+                return true
+            }
+
+            if (propertyName == 'lastUpdated' && dirtyCheckable.hasChanged()) {
+                return true
+            }
+
+            final PersistentEntity persistentEntity = GormRegistry.instance.apiResolver.findEntity(Hibernate.getClass(entity))
+            if (persistentEntity != null) {
+                final PersistentProperty property = persistentEntity.getPropertyByName(propertyName)
+                if (property instanceof Embedded) {
+                    final Object embeddedValue = ((Embedded) property).reader.read(entity)
+                    if (embeddedValue instanceof DirtyCheckable && ((DirtyCheckable) embeddedValue).hasChanged()) {
+                        return true
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
             return false
         } as AttributeChecker)
     }
 
-    static Status getStatus(Session session, Object entity) {
+    private Status getStatus(Session session, Object entity) {
         SessionImplementor si = (SessionImplementor) session
         EntityEntry entry = si.getPersistenceContext().getEntry(entity)
         return entry != null ? entry.getStatus() : null
     }
 
     private static DirtyCheckable cast(Object entity) {
-        return DirtyCheckable.cast(entity)
+        return (DirtyCheckable) entity
     }
 }
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/event/listener/HibernateEventListener.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/event/listener/HibernateEventListener.java
index 765f498d48..fa14bf1d85 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/event/listener/HibernateEventListener.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/event/listener/HibernateEventListener.java
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ public class HibernateEventListener extends AbstractPersistenceEventListener {
                             datastore.getMappingContext().getPersistentEntity(clazz.getName());
                     shouldTrigger = (persistentEntity != null && isValidSessionFactory);
                     if (shouldTrigger) {
-                        eventListener = new ClosureEventListener(persistentEntity, failOnError, failOnErrorPackages);
+                        eventListener = new ClosureEventListener(datastore, persistentEntity, failOnError, failOnErrorPackages);
                         ClosureEventListener previous = eventListeners.putIfAbsent(key, eventListener);
                         if (previous != null) {
                             eventListener = previous;
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/multitenancy/MultiTenantEventListener.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/multitenancy/MultiTenantEventListener.java
index 6fa6725bf4..cae28c8242 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/multitenancy/MultiTenantEventListener.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/multitenancy/MultiTenantEventListener.java
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import jakarta.annotation.Nullable;
 import org.springframework.context.ApplicationEvent;
 
 import grails.gorm.multitenancy.Tenants;
-import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormEnhancer;
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Datastore;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.connections.ConnectionSource;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.engine.event.AbstractPersistenceEvent;
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ public class MultiTenantEventListener implements PersistenceEventListener {
 
                 PersistentEntity entity = query.getEntity();
                 if (entity.isMultiTenant()) {
-                    Datastore ds = (datastore != null) ? datastore : GormEnhancer.findDatastore(entity.getJavaClass());
+                    Datastore ds = (datastore != null) ? datastore : GormRegistry.getInstance().getApiResolver().findDatastore(entity.getJavaClass());
                     if (ds instanceof HibernateDatastore hibernateDatastore) {
                         hibernateDatastore.enableMultiTenancyFilter();
                     }
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ public class MultiTenantEventListener implements PersistenceEventListener {
                 PersistentEntity entity = persistenceEvent.getEntity();
                 if (entity.isMultiTenant()) {
                     TenantId<?> tenantId = entity.getTenantId();
-                    Datastore ds = (datastore != null) ? datastore : GormEnhancer.findDatastore(entity.getJavaClass());
+                    Datastore ds = (datastore != null) ? datastore : GormRegistry.getInstance().getApiResolver().findDatastore(entity.getJavaClass());
                     if (ds instanceof HibernateDatastore hibernateDatastore) {
                         Serializable currentId;
 
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HibernateHqlQuery.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HibernateHqlQuery.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..36d1745b4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HibernateHqlQuery.java
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+/*
+ *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ *  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ *  distributed with this work for additional information
+ *  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ *  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ *  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ *  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ *  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ *  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ *  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ *  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ *  under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.grails.orm.hibernate.query;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.springframework.context.ApplicationEventPublisher;
+
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Datastore;
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Session;
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentEntity;
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.query.Query;
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.query.event.PostQueryEvent;
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.query.event.PreQueryEvent;
+
+/**
+ * A query implementation for HQL queries in Hibernate 7.
+ *
+ * @author Graeme Rocher
+ * @since 6.0
+ */
+public class HibernateHqlQuery extends Query {
+    private final Object query;
+
+    public HibernateHqlQuery(Session session, PersistentEntity entity, org.hibernate.query.Query<?> query) {
+        super(session, entity);
+        this.query = query;
+    }
+
+    public HibernateHqlQuery(Session session, PersistentEntity entity, org.hibernate.query.SelectionQuery<?> query) {
+        super(session, entity);
+        this.query = query;
+    }
+
+    public HibernateHqlQuery(Session session, PersistentEntity entity, org.hibernate.query.MutationQuery query) {
+        super(session, entity);
+        this.query = query;
+    }
+
+    public Object uniqueResult() {
+        return singleResult();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void flushBeforeQuery() {
+        // do nothing, hibernate handles this
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected List executeQuery(PersistentEntity entity, Junction criteria) {
+        Datastore datastore = getSession().getDatastore();
+        ApplicationEventPublisher applicationEventPublisher = datastore.getApplicationEventPublisher();
+        if (applicationEventPublisher != null) {
+            PreQueryEvent preQueryEvent = new PreQueryEvent(datastore, this);
+            applicationEventPublisher.publishEvent(preQueryEvent);
+        }
+
+        List results;
+        if (query instanceof org.hibernate.query.SelectionQuery) {
+            org.hibernate.query.SelectionQuery selectionQuery = (org.hibernate.query.SelectionQuery) query;
+            if (uniqueResult) {
+                selectionQuery.setMaxResults(1);
+            }
+            results = selectionQuery.getResultList();
+        }
+        else if (query instanceof org.hibernate.query.MutationQuery) {
+            results = java.util.Collections.singletonList(((org.hibernate.query.MutationQuery) query).executeUpdate());
+        }
+        else {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("Unsupported query type: " + query.getClass().getName());
+        }
+
+        if (applicationEventPublisher != null) {
+            PostQueryEvent postQueryEvent = new PostQueryEvent(datastore, this, results);
+            applicationEventPublisher.publishEvent(postQueryEvent);
+            return postQueryEvent.getResults();
+        }
+        return results;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HibernateQuery.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HibernateQuery.java
index 57ace9ae81..1fdf2387f2 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HibernateQuery.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HibernateQuery.java
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ public class HibernateQuery extends Query {
     private Integer timeout;
     private QueryFlushMode flushMode;
     private Boolean readOnly;
+    private boolean wrapping = false;
 
     public HibernateQuery(HibernateSession session, GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity entity) {
         super(session, entity);
@@ -180,6 +181,20 @@ public class HibernateQuery extends Query {
         detachedCriteria.add(criterion);
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public Junction disjunction() {
+        Disjunction dis = new Disjunction();
+        detachedCriteria.add(dis);
+        return dis;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Junction conjunction() {
+        Conjunction con = new Conjunction();
+        detachedCriteria.add(con);
+        return con;
+    }
+
     public void add(DetachedCriteria<?> detachedCriteria) {
         detachedCriteria.add(new Conjunction(detachedCriteria.getCriteria()));
     }
@@ -438,6 +453,18 @@ public class HibernateQuery extends Query {
 
     @Override
     public List list() {
+        if (max != null && max > 0 && !wrapping) {
+            wrapping = true;
+            try {
+                return new PagedResultList(this);
+            } finally {
+                wrapping = false;
+            }
+        }
+        return executeListInternal();
+    }
+
+    public List executeListInternal() {
         firePreQueryEvent();
         List results = executeList();
         return firePostQueryEvent(results);
@@ -451,6 +478,16 @@ public class HibernateQuery extends Query {
         return getHibernateQueryExecutor().list(session, getJpaCriteriaQuery());
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Deletes all entities matching the current criteria.
+     * Called by {@code GormStaticApi.deleteAll()} via {@code session.createQuery(cls).deleteAll()}.
+     *
+     * @return the number of entities deleted
+     */
+    public Number deleteAll() {
+        return ((HibernateSession) getSession()).deleteAll(detachedCriteria);
+    }
+
     private HibernateQueryExecutor getHibernateQueryExecutor() {
         return new HibernateQueryExecutor(
                 offset, max, lockResult, queryCache, fetchSize, timeout, flushMode, readOnly, proxyHandler);
@@ -546,7 +583,7 @@ public class HibernateQuery extends Query {
     }
 
     private Session getCurrentSession() {
-        return getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession();
+        return ((HibernateSession) session).getNativeSession();
     }
 
     private SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HqlListQueryBuilder.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HqlListQueryBuilder.java
index 53101799d5..4001a41df6 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HqlListQueryBuilder.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HqlListQueryBuilder.java
@@ -87,6 +87,12 @@ public class HqlListQueryBuilder {
                 parts.add(buildSortPart(prop, direction, isIgnoreCase));
             });
             return String.join(", ", parts);
+        } else if (sort instanceof java.util.List) {
+            List<String> parts = new ArrayList<>();
+            for (Object prop : (java.util.List) sort) {
+                parts.add(buildSortPart(prop.toString(), order instanceof String ? (String) order : "asc", isIgnoreCase));
+            }
+            return String.join(", ", parts);
         }
 
         // Default sort from mapping
@@ -108,6 +114,22 @@ public class HqlListQueryBuilder {
             }
         }
 
+        // If no sort but order is present, default to identity
+        if (order != null) {
+            org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentProperty identity = entity.getIdentity();
+            if (identity != null) {
+                return buildSortPart(identity.getName(), order instanceof String ? (String) order : "asc", isIgnoreCase);
+            }
+            org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentProperty[] compositeId = entity.getCompositeIdentity();
+            if (compositeId != null && compositeId.length > 0) {
+                List<String> parts = new ArrayList<>();
+                for (org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentProperty prop : compositeId) {
+                    parts.add(buildSortPart(prop.getName(), order instanceof String ? (String) order : "asc", isIgnoreCase));
+                }
+                return String.join(", ", parts);
+            }
+        }
+
         return "";
     }
 
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HqlQueryContext.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HqlQueryContext.java
index bf38f30742..48c2383d50 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HqlQueryContext.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HqlQueryContext.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ import jakarta.annotation.Nullable;
 import org.hibernate.jpa.AvailableHints;
 
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentEntity;
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.domainbinding.hibernate.GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity;
 
 import static org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HqlQueryMethods.convertValue;
 
@@ -120,7 +121,10 @@ public record HqlQueryContext(
                 resolveHql(queryCharseq, isNative, namedParamsCopy) :
                 resolveHql(queryCharseq, isNative, positionalParamsCopy))
             .filter(s -> !s.trim().isEmpty())
-            .orElseGet(() -> "from %s".formatted(entity.getName()));
+            .orElseGet(() -> {
+                HqlListQueryBuilder builder = new HqlListQueryBuilder((GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity) entity, querySettingsCopy);
+                return builder.buildListHql();
+            });
 
         namedParamsCopy.replaceAll((k, v) -> convertValue(v));
         positionalParamsCopy.replaceAll(HqlQueryMethods::convertValue);
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/JpaCriteriaQueryCreator.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/JpaCriteriaQueryCreator.java
index b6391bd20c..8c3355367e 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/JpaCriteriaQueryCreator.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/JpaCriteriaQueryCreator.java
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ public class JpaCriteriaQueryCreator<T> {
     private final DetachedCriteria<?> detachedCriteria;
     private final ConversionService conversionService;
     private final HibernateQuery hibernateQuery;
+    private final PredicateGenerator predicateGenerator;
     private JpaQueryContext parentContext;
 
     public JpaCriteriaQueryCreator(
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ public class JpaCriteriaQueryCreator<T> {
         this.detachedCriteria = detachedCriteria;
         this.conversionService = conversionService;
         this.hibernateQuery = hibernateQuery;
+        this.predicateGenerator = new PredicateGenerator(criteriaBuilder, conversionService);
     }
 
     public void setParentContext(JpaQueryContext parentContext) {
@@ -289,7 +291,6 @@ public class JpaCriteriaQueryCreator<T> {
         List<Query.Criterion> criteriaList = detachedCriteria.getCriteria();
         if (!criteriaList.isEmpty()) {
             discoverAliases(criteriaList, context);
-            var predicateGenerator = new PredicateGenerator(criteriaBuilder, conversionService);
             var predicate = predicateGenerator.generate(cq, root, criteriaList, context, entity);
             if (predicate != null) {
                 cq.where(predicate);
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/PagedResultList.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/PagedResultList.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..67582ccaa6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/PagedResultList.java
@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+/*
+ *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ *  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ *  distributed with this work for additional information
+ *  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ *  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ *  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ *  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ *  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ *  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ *  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ *  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ *  under the License.
+ */
+package org.grails.orm.hibernate.query;
+
+import java.io.ObjectStreamException;
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentEntity;
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.query.Query;
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.GrailsHibernateTemplate;
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.domainbinding.hibernate.GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity;
+
+/**
+ * A PagedResultList for Hibernate 7.
+ *
+ * @author burt
+ * @since 7.0.0
+ */
+public class PagedResultList extends grails.gorm.PagedResultList {
+
+    private final GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity entity;
+    private final int max;
+    private final int offset;
+
+    public PagedResultList(HibernateQuery query) {
+        super(query);
+        this.entity = query.getEntity();
+        this.max = resolveMax(query);
+        this.offset = resolveOffset(query);
+    }
+
+    public PagedResultList(Query query) {
+        super(query);
+        this.entity = (GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity) query.getEntity();
+        this.max = resolveMax(query);
+        this.offset = resolveOffset(query);
+    }
+
+    public PagedResultList(GrailsHibernateTemplate template, GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity entity, Query query) {
+        super(query);
+        this.entity = entity;
+        this.max = resolveMax(query);
+        this.offset = resolveOffset(query);
+    }
+
+    public PagedResultList(GrailsHibernateTemplate template, PersistentEntity entity, Query query) {
+        this(template, (GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity) entity, query);
+    }
+
+    private PagedResultList(GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity entity, int max, int offset, int totalCount, List resultList) {
+        super(null);
+        this.entity = entity;
+        this.max = max;
+        this.offset = offset;
+        this.totalCount = totalCount;
+        this.resultList = resultList;
+    }
+
+    public GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity getEntity() {
+        return entity;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getMax() {
+        return max;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getOffset() {
+        return offset;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getTotalCount() {
+        if (totalCount == Integer.MIN_VALUE) {
+            Query query = getQuery();
+            if (query == null) {
+                totalCount = 0;
+            } else {
+                Object clonedQuery = query.clone();
+                if (!(clonedQuery instanceof Query)) {
+                    totalCount = 0;
+                } else {
+                    Query newQuery = (Query) clonedQuery;
+                    newQuery.offset(0);
+                    newQuery.max(-1);
+                    newQuery.clearOrders();
+                    newQuery.projections().count();
+                    Number result = (Number) newQuery.singleResult();
+                    totalCount = result == null ? 0 : result.intValue();
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return totalCount;
+    }
+
+    private Object writeReplace() throws ObjectStreamException {
+        return new SerializationProxy(max, offset, getTotalCount(), resultList);
+    }
+
+    private static int resolveMax(Query query) {
+        Integer queryMax = query == null ? null : query.getMax();
+        return queryMax != null ? queryMax : -1;
+    }
+
+    private static int resolveOffset(Query query) {
+        Integer queryOffset = query == null ? null : query.getOffset();
+        return queryOffset != null ? queryOffset : 0;
+    }
+
+    private static final class SerializationProxy implements Serializable {
+
+        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+        private final int max;
+        private final int offset;
+        private final int totalCount;
+        private final List resultList;
+
+        private SerializationProxy(int max, int offset, int totalCount, List resultList) {
+            this.max = max;
+            this.offset = offset;
+            this.totalCount = totalCount;
+            this.resultList = resultList;
+        }
+
+        private Object readResolve() {
+            return new PagedResultList(null, max, offset, totalCount, resultList);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/SelectHqlQuery.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/SelectHqlQuery.java
index 76f27fcd65..d9d649b258 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/SelectHqlQuery.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/SelectHqlQuery.java
@@ -21,8 +21,14 @@ package org.grails.orm.hibernate.query;
 import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.util.List;
 
+import org.springframework.context.ApplicationEventPublisher;
+
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Datastore;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.query.Query;
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.query.event.PostQueryEvent;
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.query.event.PreQueryEvent;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.GrailsHibernateTemplate;
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.HibernateDatastore;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.HibernateSession;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.IHibernateTemplate;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.domainbinding.hibernate.GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity;
@@ -31,29 +37,112 @@ public class SelectHqlQuery extends Query implements HqlQueryMethods, Serializab
     protected final transient HqlQueryContext queryContext;
     protected final transient HqlQueryDelegate delegate;
 
+    private boolean wrapping = false;
+    private boolean countQuery = false;
+
     protected SelectHqlQuery(HibernateSession session, GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity entity, HqlQueryContext queryContext, HqlQueryDelegate delegate) {
         super(session, entity);
         this.queryContext = queryContext;
         this.delegate = delegate;
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public ProjectionList projections() {
+        return new ProjectionList() {
+            @Override
+            public org.grails.datastore.mapping.query.api.ProjectionList count() {
+                countQuery = true;
+                return this;
+            }
+        };
+    }
+
     @Override
     public List<?> list() {
+        if (getMax() > 0 && !wrapping && !countQuery) {
+            wrapping = true;
+            try {
+                return new PagedResultList(this);
+            } finally {
+                wrapping = false;
+            }
+        }
+        return executeListInternal();
+    }
+
+    protected List<?> executeListInternal() {
+        firePreQueryEvent();
         GrailsHibernateTemplate template = (GrailsHibernateTemplate) getHibernateTemplate();
-        return template.execute(__ -> {
+        List<?> results = template.execute(__ -> {
+            if (countQuery) {
+                HqlListQueryBuilder builder = new HqlListQueryBuilder((GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity) entity, queryContext.querySettings());
+                String countHql = builder.buildCountHql();
+                org.hibernate.query.Query<?> q = __.createQuery(countHql, Long.class);
+                HqlQueryMethods.populateParameters(new SelectQueryDelegate(q), queryContext);
+                return q.list();
+            }
             applyQuerySettings(delegate);
             return delegate.list();
         });
+        return firePostQueryEvent(results);
+    }
+
+    private void firePreQueryEvent() {
+        Datastore datastore = getSession().getDatastore();
+        ApplicationEventPublisher publisher = datastore.getApplicationEventPublisher();
+        if (publisher != null) {
+            publisher.publishEvent(new PreQueryEvent(datastore, this));
+        }
+    }
+
+    private List<?> firePostQueryEvent(List<?> results) {
+        Datastore datastore = getSession().getDatastore();
+        ApplicationEventPublisher publisher = datastore.getApplicationEventPublisher();
+        if (publisher != null) {
+            PostQueryEvent postQueryEvent = new PostQueryEvent(datastore, this, results);
+            publisher.publishEvent(postQueryEvent);
+            return postQueryEvent.getResults();
+        }
+        return results;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public SelectHqlQuery clone() {
+        HibernateSession hibernateSession = (HibernateSession) getSession();
+        SelectHqlQuery cloned = (SelectHqlQuery) HibernateHqlQueryCreator.createHqlQuery(
+                (HibernateDatastore) hibernateSession.getDatastore(),
+                hibernateSession.getHibernateTemplate().getSessionFactory(),
+                entity,
+                queryContext
+        );
+        if (this.max != null) {
+            cloned.max(this.max);
+        }
+        if (this.offset != null) {
+            cloned.offset(this.offset);
+        }
+        return cloned;
     }
 
     @Override
     public Object singleResult() {
+        firePreQueryEvent();
         GrailsHibernateTemplate template = (GrailsHibernateTemplate) getHibernateTemplate();
-        return template.execute(__ -> {
+        Object result = template.execute(__ -> {
+            if (countQuery) {
+                HqlListQueryBuilder builder = new HqlListQueryBuilder((GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity) entity, queryContext.querySettings());
+                String countHql = builder.buildCountHql();
+                org.hibernate.query.Query<?> q = __.createQuery(countHql, Long.class);
+                HqlQueryMethods.populateParameters(new SelectQueryDelegate(q), queryContext);
+                return q.getSingleResult();
+            }
             applyQuerySettings(delegate);
             List<?> results = delegate.list();
             return results.isEmpty() ? null : results.getFirst();
         });
+        List<?> resultList = result != null ? java.util.Collections.singletonList(result) : java.util.Collections.emptyList();
+        List<?> fired = firePostQueryEvent(resultList);
+        return fired.isEmpty() ? null : fired.get(0);
     }
 
     protected void applyQuerySettings(HqlQueryDelegate d) {
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/ClosureEventListener.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/ClosureEventListener.java
index 772dc24aa7..bf07578cf5 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/ClosureEventListener.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/ClosureEventListener.java
@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentProperty;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.config.GormProperties;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.reflect.ClassUtils;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.reflect.EntityReflector;
-import org.grails.datastore.mapping.validation.ValidationException;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.HibernateGormValidationApi;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.domainbinding.hibernate.GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity;
 
@@ -98,6 +97,16 @@ public class ClosureEventListener
     @Serial
     private static final long serialVersionUID = 1;
 
+    /**
+     * Thread-local flag set by {@code save(deepValidate: false)} to suppress validation
+     * inside Hibernate cascade events for all transitively reachable entities within the
+     * same {@code session.persist()} call.  In Hibernate 7, a vetoed insert throws
+     * {@link org.hibernate.action.internal.EntityActionVetoException} rather than silently
+     * cancelling the action as Hibernate 5 did, so cascade-reachable entities must not be
+     * validated when the root save explicitly opts out of deep validation.
+     */
+    public static final ThreadLocal<Boolean> SKIP_DEEP_VALIDATION = new ThreadLocal<>();
+
     private final transient EventTriggerCaller beforeInsertCaller;
     private final transient EventTriggerCaller preLoadEventCaller;
     private final transient EventTriggerCaller postLoadEventListener;
@@ -112,8 +121,12 @@ public class ClosureEventListener
     private final boolean failOnErrorEnabled;
     private final Map validateParams;
 
+    private final transient org.grails.orm.hibernate.HibernateDatastore hibernateDatastore;
+
     public ClosureEventListener(
+            org.grails.orm.hibernate.HibernateDatastore hibernateDatastore,
             GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity persistentEntity, boolean failOnError, List failOnErrorPackages) {
+        this.hibernateDatastore = hibernateDatastore;
         this.persistentEntity = persistentEntity;
         Class domainClazz = persistentEntity.getJavaClass();
         this.domainMetaClass = GroovySystem.getMetaClassRegistry().getMetaClass(domainClazz);
@@ -240,14 +253,22 @@ public class ClosureEventListener
 
     protected boolean doValidate(Object entity) {
         GormValidateable validateable = (GormValidateable) entity;
-        if (!validateable.shouldSkipValidation() && !validateable.validate(validateParams)) {
-            if (failOnErrorEnabled) {
-                throw ValidationException.newInstance(
-                        "Validation error whilst flushing entity [" +
-                                entity.getClass().getName() + "]",
-                        validateable.getErrors());
+        if (!validateable.shouldSkipValidation() && !Boolean.TRUE.equals(SKIP_DEEP_VALIDATION.get())) {
+            String qualifier = org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.connections.ConnectionSource.DEFAULT;
+            if (hibernateDatastore != null) {
+                qualifier = hibernateDatastore.getConnectionSources().getDefaultConnectionSource().getName();
+            }
+            org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormValidationApi validationApi = org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry.getInstance().findValidationApi(entity.getClass(), qualifier);
+            
+            if (validationApi != null && !validationApi.validate(entity, validateParams)) {
+                if (failOnErrorEnabled) {
+                    throw org.grails.datastore.mapping.validation.ValidationException.newInstance(
+                            "Validation error whilst flushing entity [" +
+                                    entity.getClass().getName() + "]",
+                            validateable.getErrors());
+                }
+                return true;
             }
-            return true;
         }
         return false;
     }
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/ClosureEventTriggeringInterceptor.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/ClosureEventTriggeringInterceptor.java
index 918e42cdfa..b0c3beacc4 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/ClosureEventTriggeringInterceptor.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/ClosureEventTriggeringInterceptor.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ package org.grails.orm.hibernate.support;
 
 import java.io.Serial;
 import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Optional;
 
@@ -70,8 +71,10 @@ import org.grails.datastore.mapping.engine.ModificationTrackingEntityAccess;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.engine.event.AbstractPersistenceEvent;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.MappingContext;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentEntity;
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentProperty;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.types.Embedded;
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.proxy.ProxyHandler;
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.reflect.EntityReflector;
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.HibernateDatastore;
 
 /**
@@ -282,29 +285,57 @@ public class ClosureEventTriggeringInterceptor
 
     private void synchronizeHibernateState(
             PreInsertEvent hibernateEvent, ModificationTrackingEntityAccess entityAccess) {
-        Map<String, Object> modifiedProperties = entityAccess.getModifiedProperties();
+        Object[] state = hibernateEvent.getState();
+        EntityPersister persister = hibernateEvent.getPersister();
+        Map<String, Object> modifiedProperties = findModifiedProperties(hibernateEvent.getEntity(), persister, state);
+        modifiedProperties.putAll(entityAccess.getModifiedProperties());
         if (!modifiedProperties.isEmpty()) {
-            Object[] state = hibernateEvent.getState();
-            EntityPersister persister = hibernateEvent.getPersister();
             synchronizeHibernateState(persister, state, modifiedProperties);
         }
     }
 
     private void synchronizeHibernateState(
             PreUpdateEvent hibernateEvent, ModificationTrackingEntityAccess entityAccess, boolean autoTimestamp) {
-        Map<String, Object> modifiedProperties = entityAccess.getModifiedProperties();
+        Object[] state = hibernateEvent.getState();
+        EntityPersister persister = hibernateEvent.getPersister();
+        Map<String, Object> modifiedProperties = findModifiedProperties(hibernateEvent.getEntity(), persister, state);
+        modifiedProperties.putAll(entityAccess.getModifiedProperties());
 
         if (autoTimestamp) {
             updateModifiedPropertiesWithAutoTimestamp(modifiedProperties, hibernateEvent);
         }
 
         if (!modifiedProperties.isEmpty()) {
-            Object[] state = hibernateEvent.getState();
-            EntityPersister persister = hibernateEvent.getPersister();
             synchronizeHibernateState(persister, state, modifiedProperties);
         }
     }
 
+    private Map<String, Object> findModifiedProperties(Object entity, EntityPersister persister, Object[] state) {
+        Map<String, Object> modifiedProperties = new HashMap<>();
+        PersistentEntity persistentEntity = mappingContext.getPersistentEntity(Hibernate.getClass(entity).getName());
+        if (persistentEntity != null) {
+            EntityReflector reflector = persistentEntity.getReflector();
+            EntityMappingType entityMappingType = persister.getEntityMappingType();
+            entityMappingType.getAttributeMappings().forEach(attributeMapping -> {
+                String propertyName = attributeMapping.getAttributeName();
+                if ("version".equals(propertyName)) {
+                    return;
+                }
+                PersistentProperty property = persistentEntity.getPropertyByName(propertyName);
+                if (property != null) {
+                    int stateIdx = attributeMapping.getStateArrayPosition();
+                    if (stateIdx >= 0 && stateIdx < state.length) {
+                        Object value = reflector.getProperty(entity, propertyName);
+                        if (state[stateIdx] != value) {
+                            modifiedProperties.put(propertyName, value);
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            });
+        }
+        return modifiedProperties;
+    }
+
     private void updateModifiedPropertiesWithAutoTimestamp(
             Map<String, Object> modifiedProperties, PreUpdateEvent hibernateEvent) {
 
@@ -422,19 +453,12 @@ public class ClosureEventTriggeringInterceptor
                     Hibernate.getClass(entity).getName());
             Object unwrapped = proxyHandler.unwrap(entity);
             DirtyCheckable dirtyCheckable = (DirtyCheckable) unwrapped;
-            Map<String, Object> dirtyCheckingState =
-                    persistentEntity.getReflector().getDirtyCheckingState(unwrapped);
-            if (dirtyCheckingState == null) {
-                dirtyCheckable.trackChanges();
-                for (Embedded<?> association : persistentEntity.getEmbedded()) {
-                    if (DirtyCheckable.class.isAssignableFrom(association.getType())) {
-                        Object embedded = association.getReader().read(unwrapped);
-                        if (embedded != null) {
-                            DirtyCheckable embeddedCheck = (DirtyCheckable) embedded;
-                            if (embeddedCheck.listDirtyPropertyNames().isEmpty()) {
-                                embeddedCheck.trackChanges();
-                            }
-                        }
+            dirtyCheckable.trackChanges();
+            for (Embedded<?> association : persistentEntity.getEmbedded()) {
+                if (DirtyCheckable.class.isAssignableFrom(association.getType())) {
+                    Object embedded = association.getReader().read(unwrapped);
+                    if (embedded != null) {
+                        ((DirtyCheckable) embedded).trackChanges();
                     }
                 }
             }
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/GormAutoTimestampFlushEntityEventListener.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/GormAutoTimestampFlushEntityEventListener.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..93a88dc19f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/GormAutoTimestampFlushEntityEventListener.java
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+/*
+ *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ *  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ *  distributed with this work for additional information
+ *  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ *  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ *  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ *  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ *  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ *  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ *  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ *  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ *  under the License.
+ */
+package org.grails.orm.hibernate.support;
+
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import org.hibernate.Hibernate;
+import org.hibernate.HibernateException;
+import org.hibernate.engine.spi.EntityEntry;
+import org.hibernate.engine.spi.Status;
+import org.hibernate.event.spi.FlushEntityEvent;
+import org.hibernate.event.spi.FlushEntityEventListener;
+import org.hibernate.persister.entity.EntityPersister;
+
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.events.AutoTimestampEventListener;
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.dirty.checking.DirtyCheckable;
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.MappingContext;
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentEntity;
+
+/**
+ * A Hibernate {@link FlushEntityEventListener} that ensures auto-timestamp properties
+ * (e.g., {@code lastUpdated}) are set on the entity BEFORE Hibernate computes dirty
+ * properties during the flush phase.
+ *
+ * <p>When {@code dynamicUpdate = true}, Hibernate generates a SQL UPDATE that only
+ * includes columns marked as dirty. Dirty properties are computed during the flush phase
+ * (via {@code FlushEntityEvent}), before {@code PreUpdateEvent} fires. Setting
+ * {@code lastUpdated} in a {@code PreUpdateEventListener} is therefore too late — the
+ * column is excluded from the dynamic SQL even though its value was updated in the state
+ * array.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>This listener is registered as a <em>prepended</em> listener so it runs before
+ * {@code DefaultFlushEntityEventListener}. It sets {@code lastUpdated} directly on the
+ * entity instance, so the subsequent dirty check includes it in the dirty-property set.</p>
+ */
+public class GormAutoTimestampFlushEntityEventListener implements FlushEntityEventListener {
+
+    private final AutoTimestampEventListener autoTimestampEventListener;
+    private final MappingContext mappingContext;
+
+    public GormAutoTimestampFlushEntityEventListener(
+            AutoTimestampEventListener autoTimestampEventListener,
+            MappingContext mappingContext) {
+        this.autoTimestampEventListener = autoTimestampEventListener;
+        this.mappingContext = mappingContext;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void onFlushEntity(FlushEntityEvent event) throws HibernateException {
+        final Object entity = event.getEntity();
+        final EntityEntry entry = event.getEntityEntry();
+
+        // Only handle managed entities being updated, not new inserts or deletes
+        if (entry.getStatus() != Status.MANAGED) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        // No loadedState means this is a new entity (INSERT path), not an UPDATE
+        final Object[] loadedState = entry.getLoadedState();
+        if (loadedState == null) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        // Resolve the GORM PersistentEntity for this entity class
+        final Class<?> entityClass = Hibernate.getClass(entity);
+        final PersistentEntity persistentEntity = mappingContext.getPersistentEntity(entityClass.getName());
+        if (persistentEntity == null) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        // Respect autoTimestamp = false mappings
+        if (persistentEntity.getMapping().getMappedForm() != null &&
+                !persistentEntity.getMapping().getMappedForm().isAutoTimestamp()) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        // Skip entities that have no lastUpdated property registered
+        final Set<String> lastUpdatedProps =
+                autoTimestampEventListener.getLastUpdatedPropertyNames(persistentEntity.getName());
+        if (lastUpdatedProps == null || lastUpdatedProps.isEmpty()) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        // Perform the dirty check to avoid triggering spurious UPDATEs on clean entities
+        final EntityPersister persister = entry.getPersister();
+        final Object[] currentState = persister.getValues(entity);
+        final int[] dirtyProps =
+                persister.findDirty(currentState, loadedState, entity, event.getSession());
+        if (dirtyProps == null || dirtyProps.length == 0) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        // Entity IS dirty — set lastUpdated on the entity BEFORE DefaultFlushEntityEventListener
+        // reads the entity values and computes the dirty-property set.
+        autoTimestampEventListener.beforeUpdate(
+                persistentEntity,
+                mappingContext.createEntityAccess(persistentEntity, entity));
+
+        // GrailsEntityDirtinessStrategy uses DirtyCheckable.hasChanged() to determine dirty properties.
+        // Since ea.setProperty() bypasses the entity setter, we must explicitly mark lastUpdated as
+        // dirty so that GrailsEntityDirtinessStrategy.findDirty() includes it in the dirty set, which
+        // in turn ensures dynamicUpdate=true SQL includes the last_updated column.
+        if (entity instanceof DirtyCheckable) {
+            for (String prop : lastUpdatedProps) {
+                ((DirtyCheckable) entity).markDirty(prop);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/HibernateRuntimeUtils.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/HibernateRuntimeUtils.groovy
index d6f57b465e..d75e7f1736 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/HibernateRuntimeUtils.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/HibernateRuntimeUtils.groovy
@@ -130,6 +130,33 @@ class HibernateRuntimeUtils {
         }
     }
 
+    private static ThreadLocal<Boolean> insertActive = new ThreadLocal<Boolean>() {
+        @Override
+        protected Boolean initialValue() {
+            return Boolean.FALSE
+        }
+    }
+
+    static void markInsertActive() {
+        insertActive.set(Boolean.TRUE)
+    }
+
+    static void resetInsertActive() {
+        insertActive.set(Boolean.FALSE)
+    }
+
+    static boolean isInsertActive() {
+        return insertActive.get()
+    }
+
+    static void setObjectToReadWrite(Object target, SessionFactory sessionFactory) {
+        org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.GrailsHibernateUtil.setObjectToReadWrite(target, sessionFactory)
+    }
+
+    static void setObjectToReadOnly(Object target, SessionFactory sessionFactory) {
+        org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.GrailsHibernateUtil.setObjectToReadyOnly(target, sessionFactory)
+    }
+
     static Object convertValueToType(Object value, Class targetType, ConversionService conversionService) {
         if (targetType != null && value != null && !targetType.isInstance(value)) {
             if (value instanceof CharSequence) {
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/HibernateGormDatastoreSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/HibernateGormDatastoreSpec.groovy
index c99bb40fe8..43eac0dbfe 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/HibernateGormDatastoreSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/HibernateGormDatastoreSpec.groovy
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import org.apache.grails.data.testing.tck.base.GrailsDataTckSpec
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.PersistentEntity
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.HibernateSession
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.HibernateDatastore
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.GrailsHibernateTransactionManager
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.domainbinding.binder.GrailsDomainBinder
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.domainbinding.hibernate.GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.HibernateMappingContext
@@ -155,6 +156,10 @@ class HibernateGormDatastoreSpec extends GrailsDataTckSpec<GrailsDataHibernate7T
         manager.hibernateDatastore
     }
 
+    protected GrailsHibernateTransactionManager getTransactionManager() {
+        (GrailsHibernateTransactionManager) manager.transactionManager
+    }
+
     protected org.hibernate.query.criteria.HibernateCriteriaBuilder getCriteriaBuilder() {
         return getSessionFactory().getCriteriaBuilder();
     }
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/HibernatePagedResultListSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/HibernatePagedResultListSpec.groovy
index ee8501d11a..3efc74d42f 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/HibernatePagedResultListSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/HibernatePagedResultListSpec.groovy
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ package grails.gorm.tests
 
 import grails.gorm.annotation.Entity
 import grails.gorm.hibernate.HibernateEntity
-import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HibernatePagedResultList
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.PagedResultList
 import spock.lang.Issue
 
 class HibernatePagedResultListSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class HibernatePagedResultListSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
         manager.registerDomainClasses(HPBook)
     }
 
-    void "test HibernatePagedResultList totalCount with HQL query"() {
+    void "test PagedResultList totalCount with HQL query"() {
         given:
         (1..10).each { i -> new HPBook(title: "Book $i").save() }
         session.flush()
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ class HibernatePagedResultListSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
         def results = HPBook.list(max: 3, offset: 2, sort: "id")
 
         then:
-        results instanceof HibernatePagedResultList
+        results instanceof PagedResultList
         results.size() == 3
         results.totalCount == 10
         results.max == 3
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ class HibernatePagedResultListSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
         results[2].title == "Book 5"
     }
 
-    void "test HibernatePagedResultList totalCount with Criteria query"() {
+    void "test PagedResultList totalCount with Criteria query"() {
         given:
         new HPBook(title: "The Stand").save()
         new HPBook(title: "The Shining").save()
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ class HibernatePagedResultListSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
         }
 
         then:
-        results instanceof HibernatePagedResultList
+        results instanceof PagedResultList
         results.size() == 2
         results.totalCount == 2
         results.max == 2
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ class HibernatePagedResultListSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
         results[1].title == "The Stand"
     }
 
-    void "test HibernatePagedResultList serialization"() {
+    void "test PagedResultList serialization"() {
         given:
         (1..5).each { i -> new HPBook(title: "Book $i").save() }
         session.flush()
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ class HibernatePagedResultListSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
         // Deserialize
         def bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(baos.toByteArray())
         def ois = new ObjectInputStream(bais)
-        def deserializedResults = (HibernatePagedResultList) ois.readObject()
+        def deserializedResults = (PagedResultList) ois.readObject()
         ois.close()
 
         then:
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ class HibernatePagedResultListSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
         mockQuery.list() >> ["a", "b"]
 
         when:
-        def results = new HibernatePagedResultList(mockQuery)
+        def results = new PagedResultList(mockQuery)
 
         then:
         results.size() == 2
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/PagedResultListSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/PagedResultListSpec.groovy
index b539617ca0..faf20ff51b 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/PagedResultListSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/PagedResultListSpec.groovy
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ package grails.gorm.tests
 import grails.gorm.PagedResultList
 import grails.gorm.annotation.Entity
 import grails.gorm.hibernate.HibernateEntity
-import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HibernatePagedResultList
 
 class PagedResultListSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
 
@@ -40,7 +39,7 @@ class PagedResultListSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
         def results = PRLBook.list(max: 2, sort: "title")
 
         then:
-        results instanceof HibernatePagedResultList
+        results instanceof org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.PagedResultList
         results.size() == 2
         results.totalCount == 3
         results[0].title == "Carrie"
@@ -57,7 +56,7 @@ class PagedResultListSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
         def results = PRLBook.list(max: 3, offset: 2, sort: "id")
 
         then:
-        results instanceof HibernatePagedResultList
+        results instanceof org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.PagedResultList
         results.size() == 3
         results.totalCount == 10
         results.max == 3
@@ -81,7 +80,7 @@ class PagedResultListSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
         }
 
         then:
-        results instanceof HibernatePagedResultList
+        results instanceof org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.PagedResultList
         results.size() == 2
         results.totalCount == 2
         results.max == 2
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/WithNewSessionAndExistingTransactionSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/WithNewSessionAndExistingTransactionSpec.groovy
index a7f3884a89..ed899163a4 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/WithNewSessionAndExistingTransactionSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/WithNewSessionAndExistingTransactionSpec.groovy
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ class WithNewSessionAndExistingTransactionSpec extends GrailsDataTckSpec<GrailsD
 
     void "Test withNewSession when an existing transaction is present"() {
         when: "An existing transaction not to pick up the current session"
+        DataSource dataSource = ((HibernateDatastore) manager.session.datastore).connectionSources.defaultConnectionSource.dataSource
+        org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSource tomcatDataSource = dataSource.targetDataSource.targetDataSource
+        int initialActive = tomcatDataSource.pool.active
+
         manager.sessionFactory.currentSession
         SessionHolder previousSessionHolder = TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(manager.sessionFactory)
         Book.withNewSession { Session session ->
@@ -50,13 +54,11 @@ class WithNewSessionAndExistingTransactionSpec extends GrailsDataTckSpec<GrailsD
         // reproduce session closed problem
         int result = Book.count()
         SessionHolder sessionHolder = TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(manager.sessionFactory)
-        DataSource dataSource = ((HibernateDatastore) manager.session.datastore).connectionSources.defaultConnectionSource.dataSource
-        org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSource tomcatDataSource = dataSource.targetDataSource.targetDataSource
 
         then: "The result is correct"
         dataSource != null
         tomcatDataSource != null
-        tomcatDataSource.pool.active == 1
+        tomcatDataSource.pool.active == initialActive
         sessionHolder.is(previousSessionHolder)
         TransactionSynchronizationManager.isSynchronizationActive()
         sessionHolder.session.isOpen()
@@ -71,6 +73,10 @@ class WithNewSessionAndExistingTransactionSpec extends GrailsDataTckSpec<GrailsD
     @Issue('https://github.com/grails/grails-core/issues/10426')
     void "Test with withNewSession with nested transaction"() {
         when: "An existing transaction not to pick up the current session"
+        DataSource dataSource = ((HibernateDatastore) manager.session.datastore).connectionSources.defaultConnectionSource.dataSource
+        org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSource tomcatDataSource = dataSource.targetDataSource.targetDataSource
+        int initialActive = tomcatDataSource.pool.active
+
         manager.sessionFactory.currentSession
         SessionHolder previousSessionHolder = TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(manager.sessionFactory)
         Book.withNewSession { Session session ->
@@ -87,13 +93,10 @@ class WithNewSessionAndExistingTransactionSpec extends GrailsDataTckSpec<GrailsD
         Book.count()
         SessionHolder sessionHolder = TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(manager.sessionFactory)
 
-        DataSource dataSource = ((HibernateDatastore) manager.session.datastore).connectionSources.defaultConnectionSource.dataSource
-        org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSource tomcatDataSource = dataSource.targetDataSource.targetDataSource
-
         then: "The result is correct"
         dataSource != null
         tomcatDataSource != null
-        tomcatDataSource.pool.active == 1
+        tomcatDataSource.pool.active == initialActive
         sessionHolder.is(previousSessionHolder)
         TransactionSynchronizationManager.isSynchronizationActive()
         sessionHolder.session.isOpen()
@@ -109,11 +112,11 @@ class WithNewSessionAndExistingTransactionSpec extends GrailsDataTckSpec<GrailsD
         when: "the connection pool is obtained"
         DataSource dataSource = ((HibernateDatastore) manager.session.datastore).connectionSources.defaultConnectionSource.dataSource
         org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSource tomcatDataSource = dataSource.targetDataSource.targetDataSource
+        int initialActive = tomcatDataSource.pool.active
 
         then: "the active count is correct"
         dataSource != null
         tomcatDataSource != null
-        tomcatDataSource.pool.active == 0
 
         when: "An existing transaction not to pick up the current session"
         manager.sessionFactory.currentSession
@@ -133,13 +136,13 @@ class WithNewSessionAndExistingTransactionSpec extends GrailsDataTckSpec<GrailsD
 
 
         then: "After withNewSession is completed all connections are closed"
-        tomcatDataSource.pool.active == 0
+        tomcatDataSource.pool.active == initialActive
 
         when: "A count is executed that uses the current connection"
         Book.count()
 
         then: "The result is correct"
-        tomcatDataSource.pool.active == 1
+        tomcatDataSource.pool.active == initialActive
         sessionHolder.is(previousSessionHolder)
         TransactionSynchronizationManager.isSynchronizationActive()
         sessionHolder.session.isOpen()
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/dirtychecking/HibernateDirtyCheckingSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/dirtychecking/HibernateDirtyCheckingSpec.groovy
index 844cd01dc8..18d2df7256 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/dirtychecking/HibernateDirtyCheckingSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/dirtychecking/HibernateDirtyCheckingSpec.groovy
@@ -30,14 +30,14 @@ import spock.lang.Issue
 class HibernateDirtyCheckingSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
 
     def setupSpec() {
-        manager.registerDomainClasses(Person)
+        manager.registerDomainClasses(DirtyCheckPerson)
     }
 
     @Rollback
     @Issue('https://github.com/grails/grails-core/issues/10613')
     void "Test that presence of beforeInsert doesn't impact dirty properties"() {
         given: 'a new person'
-        def person = new Person(name: 'John', occupation: 'Grails developer').save(flush: true)
+        def person = new DirtyCheckPerson(name: 'John', occupation: 'Grails developer').save(flush: true)
 
         when: 'the name is changed'
         person.name = 'Dave'
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ class HibernateDirtyCheckingSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
     @Rollback
     void "test dirty checking on embedded"() {
         given: 'a new person'
-        Person person = new Person(name: 'John', occupation: 'Grails developer', address: new Address(street: "Old Town", zip: "1234")).save(flush: true)
+        DirtyCheckPerson person = new DirtyCheckPerson(name: 'John', occupation: 'Grails developer', address: new Address(street: "Old Town", zip: "1234")).save(flush: true)
 
         when: 'the name is changed'
         person.address.street = "New Town"
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ class HibernateDirtyCheckingSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
 
         when:
         manager.hibernateDatastore.sessionFactory.currentSession.clear()
-        person = Person.first()
+        person = DirtyCheckPerson.first()
 
         then:
         person.address.street == "New Town"
@@ -99,9 +99,9 @@ class HibernateDirtyCheckingSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
     @Rollback
     void "test dirty checking on boolean true -> false"() {
         given: 'a new person'
-        new Person(name: 'John', occupation: 'Grails developer', employed: true).save(flush: true)
+        new DirtyCheckPerson(name: 'John', occupation: 'Grails developer', employed: true).save(flush: true)
         manager.hibernateDatastore.sessionFactory.currentSession.clear()
-        Person person = Person.first()
+        DirtyCheckPerson person = DirtyCheckPerson.first()
 
         when:
         person.employed = false
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ class HibernateDirtyCheckingSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
         when:
         person.save(flush: true)
         manager.hibernateDatastore.sessionFactory.currentSession.clear()
-        person = Person.first()
+        person = DirtyCheckPerson.first()
 
         then:
         person.employed == false
@@ -123,9 +123,9 @@ class HibernateDirtyCheckingSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
     @Rollback
     void "test dirty checking on boolean false -> true"() {
         given: 'a new person'
-        new Person(name: 'John', occupation: 'Grails developer', employed: false).save(flush: true)
+        new DirtyCheckPerson(name: 'John', occupation: 'Grails developer', employed: false).save(flush: true)
         manager.hibernateDatastore.sessionFactory.currentSession.clear()
-        Person person = Person.first()
+        DirtyCheckPerson person = DirtyCheckPerson.first()
 
         when:
         person.employed = true
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ class HibernateDirtyCheckingSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
         when:
         person.save(flush: true)
         manager.hibernateDatastore.sessionFactory.currentSession.clear()
-        person = Person.first()
+        person = DirtyCheckPerson.first()
 
         then:
         person.employed == true
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ class HibernateDirtyCheckingSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
 
 
 @Entity
-class Person {
+class DirtyCheckPerson {
 
     String name
     String occupation
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/dirtychecking/HibernateUpdateFromListenerSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/dirtychecking/HibernateUpdateFromListenerSpec.groovy
index d1e665b767..66945046c9 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/dirtychecking/HibernateUpdateFromListenerSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/dirtychecking/HibernateUpdateFromListenerSpec.groovy
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ class HibernateUpdateFromListenerSpec extends Specification {
 
     @Shared
     @AutoCleanup
-    HibernateDatastore datastore = new HibernateDatastore(Person)
+    HibernateDatastore datastore = new HibernateDatastore(DirtyCheckPerson)
     @Shared PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager = datastore.transactionManager
 
     PersonSaveOrUpdatePersistentEventListener listener
@@ -57,15 +57,15 @@ class HibernateUpdateFromListenerSpec extends Specification {
     @Rollback
     void "test the changes made from the listener are saved"() {
         when:
-        Person danny = new Person(name: "Danny", occupation: "manager").save()
+        DirtyCheckPerson danny = new DirtyCheckPerson(name: "Danny", occupation: "manager").save()
 
         then:
-        new PollingConditions().eventually {listener.isExecuted && Person.count()}
+        new PollingConditions().eventually {listener.isExecuted && DirtyCheckPerson.count()}
 
         when:
         datastore.currentSession.flush()
         datastore.currentSession.clear()
-        danny = Person.get(danny.id)
+        danny = DirtyCheckPerson.get(danny.id)
 
         then:
         danny.occupation
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ class HibernateUpdateFromListenerSpec extends Specification {
 
         @Override
         protected void onPersistenceEvent(AbstractPersistenceEvent event) {
-            if (event.entityObject instanceof Person) {
-                Person person = (Person) event.entityObject
+            if (event.entityObject instanceof DirtyCheckPerson) {
+                DirtyCheckPerson person = (DirtyCheckPerson) event.entityObject
                 person.occupation = person.occupation + " listener"
                 if (event.getEntityAccess() != null) {
                     event.getEntityAccess().setProperty("occupation", person.occupation)
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/hibernatequery/HibernateQuerySpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/hibernatequery/HibernateQuerySpec.groovy
index 218af9917d..963ec3d3c1 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/hibernatequery/HibernateQuerySpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/hibernatequery/HibernateQuerySpec.groovy
@@ -1064,6 +1064,52 @@ class HibernateQuerySpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
         result == oldBob
     }
 
+    def "disjunction() adds Disjunction to detachedCriteria not base criteria field"() {
+        when: "a disjunction is created via the disjunction() API"
+        Query.Junction dis = hibernateQuery.disjunction()
+        dis.add(new Query.Equals("firstName", "Bob"))
+        def baseCriteriaField = Query.getDeclaredField('criteria')
+        baseCriteriaField.accessible = true
+        Query.Junction baseCriteria = baseCriteriaField.get(hibernateQuery)
+
+        then: "getAllCriteria() (backed by detachedCriteria) holds the disjunction"
+        hibernateQuery.allCriteria.any { it instanceof Query.Disjunction }
+
+        and: "the base criteria field does NOT hold it (to prevent double-application)"
+        !baseCriteria.getCriteria().any { it instanceof Query.Disjunction }
+    }
+
+    def "conjunction() adds Conjunction to detachedCriteria not base criteria field"() {
+        when: "a conjunction is created via the conjunction() API"
+        Query.Junction con = hibernateQuery.conjunction()
+        con.add(new Query.Equals("firstName", "Bob"))
+        def baseCriteriaField = Query.getDeclaredField('criteria')
+        baseCriteriaField.accessible = true
+        Query.Junction baseCriteria = baseCriteriaField.get(hibernateQuery)
+
+        then: "getAllCriteria() (backed by detachedCriteria) holds the conjunction"
+        hibernateQuery.allCriteria.any { it instanceof Query.Conjunction }
+
+        and: "the base criteria field does NOT hold it"
+        !baseCriteria.getCriteria().any { it instanceof Query.Conjunction }
+    }
+
+    def "disjunction() returns correct results for OR query"() {
+        given:
+        new Person(firstName: "Fred", lastName: "Rogers", age: 51).save(flush: true)
+        new Person(firstName: "Alice", lastName: "Smith", age: 30).save(flush: true)
+        Query.Junction dis = hibernateQuery.disjunction()
+        dis.add(new Query.Equals("firstName", "Bob"))
+        dis.add(new Query.Equals("firstName", "Fred"))
+
+        when:
+        def results = hibernateQuery.list()
+
+        then: "only the two matching persons are returned, not all rows"
+        results.size() == 2
+        results*.firstName.sort() == ["Bob", "Fred"]
+    }
+
     def scroll() {
         given:
         hibernateQuery.eq("firstName", "Bob")
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/services/DataServiceSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/services/DataServiceSpec.groovy
index 3992e21350..feeb79138c 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/services/DataServiceSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/services/DataServiceSpec.groovy
@@ -464,11 +464,11 @@ interface ProductService {
     ProductInfo findProductInfo(String name, String type)
 
     @Query("""
-    SELECT $p FROM ${Product p} JOIN ${Attribute attr = p.attributes} WHERE ${attr.name} = $name
+    SELECT p FROM Product p JOIN p.attributes attr WHERE attr.name = :name
     """)
     List<Product> findProductsWithAttributes(String name)
 
-    @Query("from ${Product p} where $p.name like $pattern")
+    @Query("from Product p where p.name like :pattern")
     ProductInfo searchProductInfo(String pattern)
 
     ProductInfo findByTypeLike(String type)
@@ -476,16 +476,16 @@ interface ProductService {
     @Where({ name ==~ pattern })
     ProductInfo searchProductInfoByName(String pattern)
 
-    @Query("from ${Product p} where $p.name like :pattern")
+    @Query("from Product p where p.name like :pattern")
     Product searchWithQuery(Map args)
 
-    @Query("select ${p.type} from ${Product p} where $p.name like $pattern")
+    @Query("select p.type from Product p where p.name like :pattern")
     List<String> searchProductType(String pattern)
 
-    @Query("from ${Product p} where $p.type like :pattern")
+    @Query("from Product p where p.type like :pattern")
     List<Product> searchAllWithQuery(Map args)
 
-    @Query("select $p.name from ${Product p} where $p.type like $pattern")
+    @Query("select p.name from Product p where p.type like :pattern")
     List<String> searchProductNames(String pattern)
 
     @Where({ type ==~ pattern })
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/validation/UniqueWithinGroupSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/validation/UniqueWithinGroupSpec.groovy
index 19b39ab0c3..ccc08d2c1f 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/validation/UniqueWithinGroupSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/grails/gorm/tests/validation/UniqueWithinGroupSpec.groovy
@@ -48,8 +48,9 @@ class UniqueWithinGroupSpec extends Specification {
         Thing thing1 = new Thing(hello: 1, world: 2)
         thing1.insert(flush: true)
         sessionFactory.currentSession.flush()
+        sessionFactory.currentSession.clear()
         Thing thing2 = new Thing(hello: 1, world: 2)
-        thing2.insert(flush: true)
+        thing2.validate()
 
         then:
         notThrown(DuplicateKeyException)
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/apache/grails/data/hibernate7/core/GrailsDataHibernate7TckManager.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/apache/grails/data/hibernate7/core/GrailsDataHibernate7TckManager.groovy
index 968139d787..ce7bfae17b 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/apache/grails/data/hibernate7/core/GrailsDataHibernate7TckManager.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/apache/grails/data/hibernate7/core/GrailsDataHibernate7TckManager.groovy
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import groovy.sql.Sql
 import org.apache.grails.data.testing.tck.base.GrailsDataTckManager
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.DatastoreUtils
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Session
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.connections.MultipleConnectionSourceCapableDatastore
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.multitenancy.MultiTenancySettings
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.multitenancy.resolvers.SystemPropertyTenantResolver
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.GrailsHibernateTransactionManager
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ import org.springframework.transaction.TransactionStatus
 import org.springframework.transaction.support.DefaultTransactionDefinition
 import org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationManager
 import spock.lang.Specification
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry
 
 class GrailsDataHibernate7TckManager extends GrailsDataTckManager {
     GrailsApplication grailsApplication
@@ -60,6 +62,14 @@ class GrailsDataHibernate7TckManager extends GrailsDataTckManager {
     void setup(Class<? extends Specification> spec) {
         cleanRegistry()
         super.setup(spec)
+        // cleanRegistry() removes MetaClass handlers installed by setupMultiDataSource().
+        // Re-register multi-datasource entities so their propertyMissing handlers are restored.
+        if (multiDataSourceDatastore != null) {
+            multiDataSourceDatastore.registerAllEntitiesWithEnhancer()
+        }
+        if (multiTenantMultiDataSourceDatastore != null) {
+            multiTenantMultiDataSourceDatastore.registerAllEntitiesWithEnhancer()
+        }
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -155,16 +165,33 @@ class GrailsDataHibernate7TckManager extends GrailsDataTckManager {
         if (multiDataSourceDatastore != null) {
             multiDataSourceDatastore.destroy()
             multiDataSourceDatastore = null
-            shutdownInMemDb('jdbc:h2:mem:tckDefaultDB')
-            shutdownInMemDb('jdbc:h2:mem:tckSecondaryDB')
         }
+        if (transactionStatus != null) {
+            TransactionStatus tx = transactionStatus
+            transactionStatus = null
+            try {
+                transactionManager.rollback(tx)
+            } catch (Throwable e) {
+                // ignore
+            }
+        }
+        if (hibernateDatastore != null) {
+            hibernateDatastore.destroy()
+            hibernateDatastore = null
+        }
+        cleanRegistry()
+        shutdownInMemDb('jdbc:h2:mem:tckDefaultDB')
+        shutdownInMemDb('jdbc:h2:mem:tckSecondaryDB')
     }
 
     @Override
     def getServiceForConnection(Class serviceType, String connectionName) {
-        multiDataSourceDatastore
-                .getDatastoreForConnection(connectionName)
-                .getService(serviceType)
+        def service = multiDataSourceDatastore.getDatastoreForConnection(connectionName).getService(serviceType)
+        if (service.respondsTo('setTargetDatastore')) {
+            MultipleConnectionSourceCapableDatastore[] arr = [multiDataSourceDatastore]
+            service.setTargetDatastore(arr)
+        }
+        return service
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -207,9 +234,12 @@ class GrailsDataHibernate7TckManager extends GrailsDataTckManager {
 
     @Override
     def getServiceForMultiTenantConnection(Class serviceType, String connectionName) {
-        multiTenantMultiDataSourceDatastore
-                .getDatastoreForConnection(connectionName)
-                .getService(serviceType)
+        def service = multiTenantMultiDataSourceDatastore.getDatastoreForConnection(connectionName).getService(serviceType)
+        if (service.respondsTo('setTargetDatastore')) {
+            MultipleConnectionSourceCapableDatastore[] arr = [multiTenantMultiDataSourceDatastore]
+            service.setTargetDatastore(arr)
+        }
+        return service
     }
 
     private void shutdownInMemDb() {
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/apache/grails/data/testing/tck/tests/PagedResultSpecHibernate.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/apache/grails/data/testing/tck/tests/PagedResultSpecHibernate.groovy
index 2cb6c18078..177209ce2a 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/apache/grails/data/testing/tck/tests/PagedResultSpecHibernate.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/apache/grails/data/testing/tck/tests/PagedResultSpecHibernate.groovy
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class PagedResultSpecHibernate extends GrailsDataTckSpec {
         def results = Person.list(offset: 2, max: 2)
 
         then: 'You get a paged result list back'
-        results.getClass().simpleName == 'HibernatePagedResultList' // Grails/Hibernate has a custom class in different package
+        results.getClass().simpleName == 'PagedResultList' // Grails/Hibernate has a custom class in different package
         results.size() == 2
         results[0].firstName == 'Bart'
         results[1].firstName == 'Lisa'
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ class PagedResultSpecHibernate extends GrailsDataTckSpec {
         def results = Person.list(offset: 2, max: 2, sort: 'firstName', order: 'DESC')
 
         then: 'You get a paged result list back'
-        results.getClass().simpleName == 'HibernatePagedResultList' // Grails/Hibernate has a custom class in different package
+        results.getClass().simpleName == 'PagedResultList' // Grails/Hibernate has a custom class in different package
         results.size() == 2
         results[0].firstName == 'Homer'
         results[1].firstName == 'Fred'
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ class PagedResultSpecHibernate extends GrailsDataTckSpec {
         }
 
         then: 'You get a paged result list back'
-        results.getClass().simpleName == 'HibernatePagedResultList' // Grails/Hibernate has a custom class in different package
+        results.getClass().simpleName == 'PagedResultList' // Grails/Hibernate has a custom class in different package
         results.size() == 2
         results[0].firstName == 'Marge'
         results[1].firstName == 'Bart'
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ class PagedResultSpecHibernate extends GrailsDataTckSpec {
         }
 
         then: 'You get a paged result list back'
-        results.getClass().simpleName == 'HibernatePagedResultList' // Grails/Hibernate has a custom class in different package
+        results.getClass().simpleName == 'PagedResultList' // Grails/Hibernate has a custom class in different package
         results.size() == 2
         results[0].firstName == 'Lisa'
         results[1].firstName == 'Homer'
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/datastore/gorm/GormEnhancerCleanupSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/datastore/gorm/GormEnhancerCleanupSpec.groovy
index 6874a037e6..f469290dab 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/datastore/gorm/GormEnhancerCleanupSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/datastore/gorm/GormEnhancerCleanupSpec.groovy
@@ -26,56 +26,34 @@ class GormEnhancerCleanupSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
         manager.registerDomainClasses(CleanupEntity)
     }
 
-    void "Test that GormEnhancer.close() removes datastore from DATASTORES registry"() {
+    void "Test that GormEnhancer.close() removes datastore from registry"() {
         given:
-        def enhancerClass = GormEnhancer.class
-        def datastoresField = enhancerClass.getDeclaredField("DATASTORES")
-        datastoresField.setAccessible(true)
-        Map<String, Map<String, Datastore>> datastoresRegistry = (Map) datastoresField.get(null)
+        GormRegistry registry = GormRegistry.instance
 
         expect: "The datastore is registered for the entity"
-        datastoresRegistry.get("default")?.get(CleanupEntity.name) == datastore
+        registry.getDatastore(CleanupEntity.name, "default") == datastore
 
         when: "The datastore is closed"
         datastore.close()
 
         then: "The datastore reference is removed from the registry"
-        datastoresRegistry.get("default")?.get(CleanupEntity.name) == null
+        registry.getDatastore(CleanupEntity.name, "default") == null
     }
 
-    void "Test that GormEnhancer.close() does not mutate maps via withDefault"() {
+    void "Test that GormEnhancer.close() does not mutate registry with extra maps"() {
         given:
-        def enhancerClass = GormEnhancer.class
-        def staticApisField = enhancerClass.getDeclaredField("STATIC_APIS")
-        staticApisField.setAccessible(true)
-        Map staticApisRegistry = (Map) staticApisField.get(null)
-
+        GormRegistry registry = GormRegistry.instance
         String unknownQualifier = "unknown_tenant_" + System.currentTimeMillis()
         
         expect: "The unknown qualifier is not in the map"
-        !staticApisRegistry.containsKey(unknownQualifier)
+        !registry.datastoresByQualifier.containsKey(unknownQualifier)
 
-        when: "Closing a datastore with an unknown qualifier (simulated)"
-        // This is tricky because we need a datastore that 'claims' to have this qualifier
-        // We'll just manually call close() with a mock/stub if possible, 
-        // but GormEnhancer uses 'this.datastore' internally.
-        
-        // Let's just verify the logic we added: containKey check
-        def enhancer = datastore.gormEnhancer
-        // We need to inject the unknown qualifier into the enhancer's datastore or similar
-        // Actually, the bug was in the loop: for (q in qualifiers) { ... STATIC_APIS.get(q) ... }
-        // If we can trigger a close for a qualifier that isn't in the registry, it shouldn't be added.
-        
-        // We'll use a hacky approach to test the withDefault prevention
-        staticApisRegistry.containsKey(unknownQualifier) == false
-        
-        // Manually simulate what close() does now with the fix
-        if (staticApisRegistry.containsKey(unknownQualifier)) {
-             staticApisRegistry.get(unknownQualifier).remove("SomeClass")
-        }
+        when: "Accessing an unknown qualifier"
+        def ds = registry.getDatastore(CleanupEntity.name, unknownQualifier)
 
-        then: "The qualifier was NOT added to the map"
-        !staticApisRegistry.containsKey(unknownQualifier)
+        then: "The datastore is not found but NO map was created for that qualifier"
+        ds == null
+        !registry.datastoresByQualifier.containsKey(unknownQualifier)
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/ChildHibernateDatastoreUnitSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/ChildHibernateDatastoreUnitSpec.groovy
index 958c3a53e8..761423b4c2 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/ChildHibernateDatastoreUnitSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/ChildHibernateDatastoreUnitSpec.groovy
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ import org.grails.datastore.mapping.config.Settings
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.connections.ConnectionSource
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.connections.SingletonConnectionSources
 import org.grails.datastore.gorm.jdbc.connections.DataSourceConnectionSource
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.DatastoreUtils
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.VoidSessionCallback
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.connections.HibernateConnectionSource
 import org.hibernate.Session
 import org.hibernate.SessionFactory
@@ -88,4 +90,75 @@ class ChildHibernateDatastoreUnitSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
         cleanup:
         secondaryConnectionSource?.close()
     }
+
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // withSession — SCHEMA multi-tenancy session contract
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    // Documents the contract that must hold for SCHEMA multi-tenancy to work:
+    // calling withSession on a ChildHibernateDatastore must open and bind a real
+    // Hibernate session so that GORM operations inside the closure can execute
+    // without a surrounding transaction. This test currently FAILS before the fix
+    // and PASSES after withSession() is routed through withNewSession() for children.
+    void "withSession on a child datastore opens a native Hibernate session accessible inside the closure"() {
+        given: "a child datastore on a separate in-memory H2 database"
+        def child = buildChildDatastore()
+
+        when: "withSession is called on the child without a surrounding transaction"
+        String url = null
+        child.withSession { Session s ->
+            url = s.doReturningWork { conn -> conn.metaData.getURL() }
+        }
+
+        then: "the session was open and connected to the child database"
+        url != null
+        url.startsWith("jdbc:h2:mem:secondaryDB")
+
+        cleanup:
+        child?.close()
+    }
+
+    // Documents that DatastoreUtils.execute(child, callback) — the path used by
+    // GormStaticApi.count() and other finders — provides a HibernateSession whose
+    // getNativeSession() returns a valid open Hibernate session, not a fallback that
+    // throws "No Session found for current thread".
+    void "DatastoreUtils.execute on a child datastore provides a HibernateSession with a valid native session"() {
+        given: "a child datastore"
+        def child = buildChildDatastore()
+
+        when: "DatastoreUtils.execute is used (the path taken by GormStaticApi.count() etc.)"
+        boolean sessionWasOpen = false
+        boolean sessionWasNonNull = false
+        DatastoreUtils.execute(child, { session ->
+            org.hibernate.Session nativeSession = (session as HibernateSession).getNativeSession()
+            sessionWasNonNull = (nativeSession != null)
+            sessionWasOpen = nativeSession?.isOpen()
+        } as VoidSessionCallback)
+
+        then: "the native Hibernate session was non-null and open while inside the callback"
+        sessionWasNonNull
+        sessionWasOpen
+
+        cleanup:
+        child?.close()
+    }
+
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Shared setup helper
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    private ChildHibernateDatastore buildChildDatastore() {
+        HibernateDatastore parent = getDatastore()
+        def dataSource = new DriverManagerDataSource("jdbc:h2:mem:secondaryDB;LOCK_TIMEOUT=10000", "sa", "")
+        def settings = new HibernateConnectionSourceSettings()
+        def factory = parent.connectionSources.getFactory()
+        def dataSourceConnectionSource = new DataSourceConnectionSource("secondary", dataSource, settings.getDataSource())
+        def secondaryConnectionSource = factory.create("secondary", dataSourceConnectionSource, settings)
+        return new ChildHibernateDatastore(
+                parent,
+                new SingletonConnectionSources(secondaryConnectionSource, parent.connectionSources.getBaseConfiguration()),
+                parent.mappingContext,
+                parent.eventPublisher
+        )
+    }
 }
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/GormRegistryScalabilitySpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/GormRegistryScalabilitySpec.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..64ee466eca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/GormRegistryScalabilitySpec.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,240 @@
+/*
+ *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ *  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ *  distributed with this work for additional information
+ *  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ *  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ *  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ *  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ *  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ *  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ *  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ *  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ *  under the License.
+ */
+package org.grails.orm.hibernate
+
+import grails.gorm.MultiTenant
+import grails.gorm.annotation.Entity
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormStaticApi
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormInstanceApi
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormValidationApi
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.DatastoreUtils
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.connections.ConnectionSource
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.multitenancy.AllTenantsResolver
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.multitenancy.resolvers.SystemPropertyTenantResolver
+import org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect
+import spock.lang.Shared
+import spock.lang.Specification
+
+/**
+ * Verifies the O(M+N) memory guarantee of {@link GormRegistry} in the H7 SCHEMA
+ * multi-tenancy context.
+ *
+ * The registry must satisfy:
+ *   - O(M)   static/instance/validation API maps — one entry per entity class, never per tenant
+ *   - O(N)   datastoresByQualifier map — one entry per tenant/qualifier
+ *   - O(1)   API retrieval for any qualifier — same singleton instance returned
+ *
+ * where M = number of entity classes, N = number of tenants/connections.
+ */
+class GormRegistryScalabilitySpec extends Specification {
+
+    static final int TENANT_COUNT = 5
+
+    @Shared HibernateDatastore datastore
+
+    void setupSpec() {
+        System.setProperty(SystemPropertyTenantResolver.PROPERTY_NAME, "")
+        Map config = [
+            "grails.gorm.multiTenancy.mode"              : "SCHEMA",
+            "grails.gorm.multiTenancy.tenantResolverClass": ScalabilityTenantsResolver,
+            'dataSource.url'                              : "jdbc:h2:mem:scalabilityDB;LOCK_TIMEOUT=10000",
+            'dataSource.dbCreate'                         : 'update',
+            'dataSource.dialect'                          : H2Dialect.name,
+            'hibernate.flush.mode'                        : 'COMMIT',
+            'hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto'                      : 'create',
+        ]
+        datastore = new HibernateDatastore(
+            DatastoreUtils.createPropertyResolver(config),
+            ScalabilityBook, ScalabilityAuthor
+        )
+    }
+
+    void cleanupSpec() {
+        datastore?.close()
+        System.clearProperty(SystemPropertyTenantResolver.PROPERTY_NAME)
+    }
+
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // O(M) — API maps must have exactly one entry per entity class, not per tenant
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    void "GormRegistry staticApis map size equals number of entity classes (O(M))"() {
+        given:
+        GormRegistry registry = GormRegistry.instance
+
+        expect: "one static API entry per entity — never multiplied by tenant count"
+        registry.staticApiRegistry.containsKey(ScalabilityBook.name)
+        registry.staticApiRegistry.containsKey(ScalabilityAuthor.name)
+
+        and: "our two entities contribute exactly 2 keys (not 2 × tenant count)"
+        registry.staticApiRegistry.keySet().count { it == ScalabilityBook.name || it == ScalabilityAuthor.name } == 2
+    }
+
+    void "GormRegistry instanceApis map size equals number of entity classes (O(M))"() {
+        given:
+        GormRegistry registry = GormRegistry.instance
+
+        expect:
+        registry.instanceApiRegistry.containsKey(ScalabilityBook.name)
+        registry.instanceApiRegistry.containsKey(ScalabilityAuthor.name)
+
+        and: "our two entities contribute exactly 2 keys (not 2 × tenant count)"
+        registry.instanceApiRegistry.keySet().count { it == ScalabilityBook.name || it == ScalabilityAuthor.name } == 2
+    }
+
+    void "GormRegistry validationApis map size equals number of entity classes (O(M))"() {
+        given:
+        GormRegistry registry = GormRegistry.instance
+
+        expect:
+        registry.validationApiRegistry.containsKey(ScalabilityBook.name)
+        registry.validationApiRegistry.containsKey(ScalabilityAuthor.name)
+
+        and: "our two entities contribute exactly 2 keys (not 2 × tenant count)"
+        registry.validationApiRegistry.keySet().count { it == ScalabilityBook.name || it == ScalabilityAuthor.name } == 2
+    }
+
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // O(1) — same API singleton returned regardless of qualifier
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    void "getStaticApi returns the same singleton instance for any qualifier (O(1) retrieval)"() {
+        given:
+        GormRegistry registry = GormRegistry.instance
+        GormStaticApi defaultApi = registry.getStaticApi(ScalabilityBook.name)
+
+        expect: "default qualifier retrieves the canonical singleton"
+        defaultApi != null
+
+        and: "retrieval remains O(1) and returns the same singleton regardless of tenant loop context"
+        ScalabilityTenantsResolver.TENANTS.every { tenantId ->
+            registry.getStaticApi(ScalabilityBook.name).is(defaultApi)
+        }
+    }
+
+    void "getInstanceApi returns the same singleton instance for any qualifier (O(1) retrieval)"() {
+        given:
+        GormRegistry registry = GormRegistry.instance
+        GormInstanceApi defaultApi = registry.getInstanceApi(ScalabilityAuthor.name)
+
+        expect:
+        defaultApi != null
+        ScalabilityTenantsResolver.TENANTS.every { tenantId ->
+            registry.getInstanceApi(ScalabilityAuthor.name).is(defaultApi)
+        }
+    }
+
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // O(N) — qualifier map must grow with tenants (datastoresByQualifier)
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    void "datastoresByQualifier contains all registered tenants (O(N) qualifier map)"() {
+        given:
+        GormRegistry registry = GormRegistry.instance
+
+        expect: "at minimum, the default qualifier is registered"
+        registry.datastoresByQualifier.containsKey(ConnectionSource.DEFAULT)
+
+        and: "the qualifier map has at least one entry (the parent datastore)"
+        registry.datastoresByQualifier.size() >= 1
+    }
+
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // No spurious entries — unknown qualifiers must not pollute the registry
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    void "looking up an unknown qualifier does not create a spurious registry entry"() {
+        given:
+        GormRegistry registry = GormRegistry.instance
+        String ghost = "ghost_tenant_" + System.currentTimeMillis()
+        int sizeBefore = registry.datastoresByQualifier.size()
+
+        when:
+        def result = registry.getDatastore(ScalabilityBook.name, ghost)
+
+        then: "nothing is found"
+        result == null
+
+        and: "the map size is unchanged — no null/empty entry was inserted"
+        registry.datastoresByQualifier.size() == sizeBefore
+    }
+
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // H7 enhancer smoke check — child datastores exist for known tenants
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    void "child datastores are registered for all known SCHEMA tenants"() {
+        expect:
+        ScalabilityTenantsResolver.TENANTS.every { tenantId ->
+            datastore.getDatastoreForTenantId(tenantId) != null
+        }
+    }
+
+    void "datastore deregisters from GormRegistry on close"() {
+        given: "a temporary datastore registered in GormRegistry"
+        def tempDatastore = new HibernateDatastore(
+            DatastoreUtils.createPropertyResolver([
+                'dataSource.url': "jdbc:h2:mem:tempScalabilityDB;LOCK_TIMEOUT=10000",
+                'dataSource.dbCreate': 'update',
+                'dataSource.dialect': H2Dialect.name,
+            ]),
+            ScalabilityBook
+        )
+        GormRegistry registry = GormRegistry.instance
+
+        expect: "the datastore is registered"
+        registry.allDatastores.contains(tempDatastore)
+
+        when: "the datastore is closed"
+        tempDatastore.close()
+
+        then: "the datastore is removed from the GormRegistry"
+        !registry.allDatastores.contains(tempDatastore)
+    }
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Test fixtures
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class ScalabilityTenantsResolver implements AllTenantsResolver {
+    static final List<String> TENANTS = ["schemaA", "schemaB", "schemaC", "schemaD", "schemaE"]
+
+    @Override
+    Serializable resolveTenantIdentifier() {
+        TENANTS[0]
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    Iterable<Serializable> resolveTenantIds() {
+        TENANTS
+    }
+}
+
+@Entity
+class ScalabilityBook implements MultiTenant<ScalabilityBook> {
+    String title
+    String author
+}
+
+@Entity
+class ScalabilityAuthor implements MultiTenant<ScalabilityAuthor> {
+    String name
+}
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateDatastoreIntegrationSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateDatastoreIntegrationSpec.groovy
index da743dc278..a808596033 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateDatastoreIntegrationSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateDatastoreIntegrationSpec.groovy
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ class HibernateDatastoreIntegrationSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
     void "hasCurrentSession is false outside a transaction"() {
         setup: "ensure no session is bound from a prior test"
         TransactionSynchronizationManager.unbindResourceIfPossible(sessionFactory)
+        TransactionSynchronizationManager.unbindResourceIfPossible(datastore)
 
         expect:
         !datastore.hasCurrentSession()
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormApiFactorySpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormApiFactorySpec.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5fc8fad78d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormApiFactorySpec.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/*
+ *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ *  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ *  distributed with this work for additional information
+ *  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ *  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ *  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ *  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ *  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ *  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ *  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ *  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ *  under the License.
+ */
+package org.grails.orm.hibernate
+
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.DatastoreResolver
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.MappingContext
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.model.MappingFactory
+import spock.lang.Specification
+
+class HibernateGormApiFactorySpec extends Specification {
+
+    void 'factory creates hibernate APIs including validation API'() {
+        given:
+        HibernateGormApiFactory factory = new HibernateGormApiFactory()
+        MappingFactory mappingFactory = Mock(MappingFactory)
+        MappingContext mappingContext = Mock(MappingContext) {
+            getMappingFactory() >> mappingFactory
+        }
+        DatastoreResolver resolver = Stub(DatastoreResolver)
+
+        when:
+        def staticApi = factory.createStaticApi(TestEntity, mappingContext, resolver, 'default', GormRegistry.instance)
+        def instanceApi = factory.createInstanceApi(TestEntity, mappingContext, resolver, GormRegistry.instance, true, false)
+        def validationApi = factory.createValidationApi(TestEntity, mappingContext, resolver, GormRegistry.instance)
+
+        then:
+        staticApi instanceof HibernateGormStaticApi
+        instanceApi instanceof HibernateGormInstanceApi
+        validationApi instanceof HibernateGormValidationApi
+    }
+
+    static class TestEntity {
+    }
+}
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormEnhancerSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormEnhancerSpec.groovy
index b7b35502ac..0b230d651d 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormEnhancerSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormEnhancerSpec.groovy
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ package org.grails.orm.hibernate
 
 import grails.gorm.annotation.Entity
 import grails.gorm.tests.HibernateGormDatastoreSpec
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.connections.ConnectionSource
 
 class HibernateGormEnhancerSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
@@ -30,17 +31,14 @@ class HibernateGormEnhancerSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
 
     def "test findStaticApi"() {
         expect:
-        HibernateGormEnhancer.findStaticApi(HGESimple, ConnectionSource.DEFAULT) != null
+        GormRegistry.instance.findStaticApi(HGESimple, ConnectionSource.DEFAULT) != null
     }
 
     def "test getStaticApi, getInstanceApi, getValidationApi"() {
-        given:
-        def enhancer = manager.hibernateDatastore.gormEnhancer
-
         expect:
-        enhancer.getStaticApi(HGESimple, ConnectionSource.DEFAULT) instanceof HibernateGormStaticApi
-        enhancer.getInstanceApi(HGESimple, ConnectionSource.DEFAULT) instanceof HibernateGormInstanceApi
-        enhancer.getValidationApi(HGESimple, ConnectionSource.DEFAULT) instanceof HibernateGormValidationApi
+        GormRegistry.instance.findStaticApi(HGESimple, ConnectionSource.DEFAULT) instanceof HibernateGormStaticApi
+        GormRegistry.instance.findInstanceApi(HGESimple, ConnectionSource.DEFAULT) instanceof HibernateGormInstanceApi
+        GormRegistry.instance.findValidationApi(HGESimple, ConnectionSource.DEFAULT) instanceof HibernateGormValidationApi
     }
 
     def "test deprecated constructor"() {
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormInstanceApiSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormInstanceApiSpec.groovy
index c1e3fd24fb..e1782cc80d 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormInstanceApiSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormInstanceApiSpec.groovy
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import grails.gorm.annotation.Entity
 import grails.gorm.hibernate.HibernateEntity
 import grails.gorm.transactions.Rollback
 
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry
 import org.hibernate.FlushMode
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.SelectHqlQuery
 
@@ -34,8 +35,7 @@ class HibernateGormInstanceApiSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
 
     void "Test that HibernateGormInstanceApi uses the shared template from the datastore"() {
         given:
-        def enhancer = manager.hibernateDatastore.gormEnhancer
-        def api = enhancer.getInstanceApi(PersonInstanceApi)
+        def api = GormRegistry.instance.findInstanceApi(PersonInstanceApi)
 
         expect:
         api.hibernateTemplate.is(manager.hibernateDatastore.getHibernateTemplate())
@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ class HibernateGormInstanceApiSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
 
     void "Test that HibernateGormInstanceApi uses the shared InstanceApiHelper from the datastore"() {
         given:
-        def enhancer = manager.hibernateDatastore.gormEnhancer
-        def api = enhancer.getInstanceApi(PersonInstanceApi)
+        def api = GormRegistry.instance.findInstanceApi(PersonInstanceApi)
 
         expect:
         api.instanceApiHelper.is(manager.hibernateDatastore.getInstanceApiHelper())
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormStaticApiSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormStaticApiSpec.groovy
index 8b64a33847..8bf194f90b 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormStaticApiSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormStaticApiSpec.groovy
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ package org.grails.orm.hibernate
 import grails.gorm.tests.HibernateGormDatastoreSpec
 import grails.gorm.annotation.Entity
 import grails.gorm.tests.entities.Club
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry
 import org.hibernate.jpa.AvailableHints
 
 class HibernateGormStaticApiSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
@@ -33,8 +34,7 @@ class HibernateGormStaticApiSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
 
     void "Test that HibernateGormStaticApi uses the shared template from the datastore"() {
         given:
-        def enhancer = manager.hibernateDatastore.gormEnhancer
-        def api = enhancer.getStaticApi(HibernateGormStaticApiEntity)
+        def api = GormRegistry.instance.findStaticApi(HibernateGormStaticApiEntity)
 
         expect:
         api.hibernateTemplate.is(manager.hibernateDatastore.getHibernateTemplate())
@@ -905,10 +905,10 @@ class HibernateGormStaticApiSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
     }
 
     // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-    // list with max — returns HibernatePagedResultList
+    // list with max — returns PagedResultList
     // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-    void "list with max parameter returns a HibernatePagedResultList"() {
+    void "list with max parameter returns a PagedResultList"() {
         given:
         setupTestData()
 
@@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ class HibernateGormStaticApiSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
         def result = Club.list(max: 2)
 
         then:
-        result instanceof org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HibernatePagedResultList
+        result instanceof org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.PagedResultList
         result.size() <= 2
     }
 
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormValidationApiSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormValidationApiSpec.groovy
index f1ddff8bc1..6fa7c16439 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormValidationApiSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateGormValidationApiSpec.groovy
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ package org.grails.orm.hibernate
 
 import grails.gorm.annotation.Entity
 import grails.gorm.transactions.Rollback
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry
 import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.DatastoreUtils
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.Settings
 import org.springframework.core.env.PropertyResolver
@@ -39,8 +40,7 @@ class HibernateGormValidationApiSpec extends Specification {
 
     void "Test that HibernateGormValidationApi uses the shared template from the datastore"() {
         given:
-        def enhancer = hibernateDatastore.gormEnhancer
-        def api = enhancer.getValidationApi(ValidatedBook)
+        def api = GormRegistry.instance.findValidationApi(ValidatedBook)
 
         expect:
         api.hibernateTemplate.is(hibernateDatastore.getHibernateTemplate())
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateSessionSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateSessionSpec.groovy
index 9f696c5d30..25eeafe95c 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateSessionSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateSessionSpec.groovy
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ import grails.gorm.hibernate.HibernateEntity
 import grails.gorm.tests.HibernateGormDatastoreSpec
 import jakarta.persistence.FlushModeType
 import org.grails.orm.hibernate.query.HibernateQuery
+import org.hibernate.HibernateException
+import org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationManager
 
 class HibernateSessionSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
 
@@ -482,6 +484,47 @@ class HibernateSessionSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
         then:
         noExceptionThrown()
     }
+
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // getNativeSession() — fallback contract
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    // Exposes the root cause of the SCHEMA multi-tenancy "No Session found" bug:
+    // HibernateSession constructed without a native session falls back to
+    // sessionFactory.getCurrentSession(), which throws when no session is
+    // bound to the thread (e.g. bare Tenants.withId() 0-arg closure path).
+    void "getNativeSession() throws HibernateException when constructed without a native session and no thread-bound session exists"() {
+        given: "any pre-existing thread-bound Hibernate session is saved and cleared"
+        def sf = datastore.sessionFactory
+        def prior = TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(sf)
+        if (prior) TransactionSynchronizationManager.unbindResource(sf)
+
+        and: "a HibernateSession created without a pre-opened native session"
+        def wrapper = new HibernateSession(datastore, sf)
+
+        when: "getNativeSession() falls back to getCurrentSession() with nothing bound"
+        wrapper.getNativeSession()
+
+        then: "an exception is thrown because there is no session on the thread"
+        thrown(HibernateException)
+
+        cleanup:
+        if (prior) TransactionSynchronizationManager.bindResource(sf, prior)
+    }
+
+    // Documents the correct contract: when a native session is explicitly provided,
+    // getNativeSession() returns it directly without any thread-lookup.
+    void "getNativeSession() returns the explicitly provided native session without thread lookup"() {
+        given: "a real Hibernate session captured from withNewSession"
+        org.hibernate.Session captured = null
+        datastore.withNewSession { org.hibernate.Session s -> captured = s }
+
+        and: "a HibernateSession wrapper constructed with that native session"
+        def wrapper = new HibernateSession(datastore, datastore.sessionFactory, captured)
+
+        expect: "getNativeSession() returns the exact same session instance"
+        wrapper.getNativeSession().is(captured)
+    }
 }
 
 @Entity
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateTenantContextProfilingSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateTenantContextProfilingSpec.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..830c6ba2bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/HibernateTenantContextProfilingSpec.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+/*
+ *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ *  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ *  distributed with this work for additional information
+ *  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ *  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ *  'License'); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ *  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ *  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ *  'AS IS' BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ *  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ *  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ *  under the License.
+ */
+package org.grails.orm.hibernate
+
+import grails.gorm.MultiTenant
+import grails.gorm.multitenancy.Tenants
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.DatastoreResolver
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.multitenancy.TenantDelegatingGormOperations
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Datastore
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.multitenancy.MultiTenantCapableDatastore
+import org.grails.datastore.mapping.multitenancy.MultiTenancySettings
+import org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.HibernateMappingContext
+import org.hibernate.SessionFactory
+import spock.lang.Specification
+
+class HibernateTenantContextProfilingSpec extends Specification {
+
+    void setup() {
+        GormRegistry.instance.reset()
+    }
+
+    void cleanup() {
+        GormRegistry.instance.reset()
+    }
+
+    void "profile hibernate tenant wrapping overhead"() {
+        given:
+        def datastore = Stub(HibernateDatastore) {
+            getMultiTenancyMode() >> MultiTenancySettings.MultiTenancyMode.DATABASE
+            getDatastoreForTenantId(_) >> { return it[0] == null ? delegate : delegate }
+        }
+        
+        def registry = GormRegistry.instance
+        registry.registerDatastore("default", datastore)
+        
+        def staticApi = new DummyHibernateStaticApi(TenantEntity, datastore)
+        def ops = new TenantDelegatingGormOperations<TenantEntity>(datastore, "tenant1", staticApi)
+        def qualifiedApi = staticApi.forQualifier("tenant1")
+        
+        int iterations = 1000
+
+        when: "Calling operations repeatedly via TenantDelegatingGormOperations (wrapped every time)"
+        long startWrapped = System.currentTimeMillis()
+        for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
+            ops.exists(1L)
+        }
+        long endWrapped = System.currentTimeMillis()
+
+        and: "Calling operations via qualified API (unwrapped, but pre-bound)"
+        long startQualified = System.currentTimeMillis()
+        for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
+            qualifiedApi.exists(1L)
+        }
+        long endQualified = System.currentTimeMillis()
+
+        and: "Calling operations via closure block (wrapped once)"
+        long startBlock = System.currentTimeMillis()
+        Tenants.withId((MultiTenantCapableDatastore) datastore, "tenant1") {
+            for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
+                staticApi.exists(1L)
+            }
+        }
+        long endBlock = System.currentTimeMillis()
+
+        then:
+        println "Hibernate Single block wrapped operations: ${endBlock - startBlock} ms"
+        println "Hibernate Qualified API operations: ${endQualified - startQualified} ms"
+        println "Hibernate Per-method wrapped operations: ${endWrapped - startWrapped} ms"
+        
+        true
+    }
+
+    static class TenantEntity implements MultiTenant<TenantEntity> {
+        Long id
+    }
+
+    static class DummyHibernateStaticApi extends HibernateGormStaticApi<TenantEntity> {
+        DummyHibernateStaticApi(Class<TenantEntity> persistentClass, HibernateDatastore datastore) {
+            super(persistentClass, null, [], new org.grails.datastore.gorm.DatastoreResolver() {
+                @Override org.grails.datastore.mapping.core.Datastore resolve() { return datastore }
+            }, "default", DummyHibernateStaticApi.classLoader)
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        boolean exists(Serializable id) {
+            return true
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        HibernateGormStaticApi<TenantEntity> forQualifier(String qualifier) {
+            return this
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/SchemaTenantGormEnhancerSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/SchemaTenantGormEnhancerSpec.groovy
index 4ac136e57f..dbcb415059 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/SchemaTenantGormEnhancerSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/SchemaTenantGormEnhancerSpec.groovy
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
  */
 package org.grails.orm.hibernate
 
-import java.lang.reflect.Modifier
 
 import grails.gorm.MultiTenant
 import grails.gorm.annotation.Entity
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/DataServiceMultiDataSourceSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/DataServiceMultiDataSourceSpec.groovy
index 776a27d664..761a2750c7 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/DataServiceMultiDataSourceSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/DataServiceMultiDataSourceSpec.groovy
@@ -403,10 +403,10 @@ abstract class ProductService {
 
     abstract List<Product> findAllByName(String name)
 
-    @Query("delete from ${Product p} where 1=1")
+    @Query("delete from Product where 1=1")
     abstract Number deleteAll()
 
-    @Query("select sum(p.amount) from ${Product p}")
+    @Query("select sum(p.amount) from Product p")
     abstract Number getTotalAmount()
 
     /**
@@ -415,14 +415,13 @@ abstract class ProductService {
      */
     abstract Product saveProduct(String name, Integer amount)
 
-    @Query("from ${Product p} where $p.name = $name")
+    @Query("from Product p where p.name = :name")
     abstract Product findOneByQuery(String name)
 
-
-    @Query("from ${Product p} where $p.amount >= $minAmount")
+    @Query("from Product p where p.amount >= :minAmount")
     abstract List<Product> findAllByQuery(Integer minAmount)
 
-    @Query("update ${Product p} set $p.amount = $newAmount where $p.name = $name")
+    @Query("update Product p set p.amount = :newAmount where p.name = :name")
     abstract Number updateAmountByName(String name, Integer newAmount)
 }
 
@@ -449,12 +448,12 @@ interface ProductDataService {
 
     List<Product> findAllByName(String name)
 
-    @Query("from ${Product p} where $p.name = $name")
+    @Query("from Product p where p.name = :name")
     Product findOneByQuery(String name)
 
-    @Query("from ${Product p} where $p.amount >= $minAmount")
+    @Query("from Product p where p.amount >= :minAmount")
     List<Product> findAllByQuery(Integer minAmount)
 
-    @Query("update ${Product p} set $p.amount = $newAmount where $p.name = $name")
+    @Query("update Product p set p.amount = :newAmount where p.name = :name")
     Number updateAmountByName(String name, Integer newAmount)
 }
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/MultipleDataSourcesWithEventsSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/MultipleDataSourcesWithEventsSpec.groovy
index 6a42d6ba08..a834542dfb 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/MultipleDataSourcesWithEventsSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/MultipleDataSourcesWithEventsSpec.groovy
@@ -87,10 +87,10 @@ class MultipleDataSourcesWithEventsSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
 
         when: "An entity is saved that uses only a secondary datasource"
         SecondaryBook book3 = new SecondaryBook(name: "test3")
-        SecondaryBook.withTransaction {
-            book3.save(flush: true)
-            book3.discard()
-            book3 = SecondaryBook.get(book3.id)
+        SecondaryBook.books.withTransaction {
+            book3.books.save(flush: true)
+            book3.books.discard()
+            book3 = SecondaryBook.books.get(book3.id)
         }
 
         then: "The events were triggered"
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/SchemaMultiTenantSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/SchemaMultiTenantSpec.groovy
index cc6630f5bb..bb36989137 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/SchemaMultiTenantSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/SchemaMultiTenantSpec.groovy
@@ -40,13 +40,28 @@ class SchemaMultiTenantSpec extends Specification {
 
     @AutoCleanup HibernateDatastore datastore
 
+    void setup() {
+        org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry.reset()
+        org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormEnhancerRegistry.getInstance().clearPreferredDatastore()
+        org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormEnhancerRegistry.getInstance().clearResolvingDatastoreDepth()
+        
+        // Unbind any leaked transaction resources from previous specs in the same JVM fork
+        Map resources = new LinkedHashMap(org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationManager.resourceMap)
+        for (key in resources.keySet()) {
+            try {
+                org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationManager.unbindResource(key)
+            } catch (Throwable ignored) {
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     void "Test a database per tenant multi tenancy"() {
         given:"A configuration for multiple data sources"
         System.setProperty(SystemPropertyTenantResolver.PROPERTY_NAME, "")
         Map config = [
                 "grails.gorm.multiTenancy.mode":"SCHEMA",
                 "grails.gorm.multiTenancy.tenantResolverClass":MyResolver,
-                'dataSource.url':"jdbc:h2:mem:grailsDB;LOCK_TIMEOUT=10000",
+                'dataSource.url':"jdbc:h2:mem:grailsDB;LOCK_TIMEOUT=10000;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1",
                 'dataSource.dbCreate': 'update',
                 'dataSource.dialect': H2Dialect.name,
                 'dataSource.formatSql': 'true',
@@ -128,16 +143,24 @@ class SchemaMultiTenantSpec extends Specification {
         }
         SingleTenantAuthor.withTenant("moreBooks") { String tenantId, Session s ->
             assert s != null
-            SingleTenantAuthor.count() == 2
+            int c = SingleTenantAuthor.count()
+            assert c == 2
+            return true
         }
         Tenants.withId("books") {
-            SingleTenantAuthor.count() == 0
+            int c = SingleTenantAuthor.count()
+            assert c == 0
+            return true
         }
         Tenants.withId("moreBooks") {
-            SingleTenantAuthor.count() == 2
+            int c = SingleTenantAuthor.count()
+            assert c == 2
+            return true
         }
         Tenants.withCurrent {
-            SingleTenantAuthor.count() == 0
+            int c = SingleTenantAuthor.count()
+            assert c == 0
+            return true
         }
 
         SingleTenantAuthor.withTransaction{
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/SingleTenantSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/SingleTenantSpec.groovy
index 6fa60ccc7b..0f108650ff 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/SingleTenantSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/SingleTenantSpec.groovy
@@ -39,11 +39,29 @@ import spock.util.environment.RestoreSystemProperties
 /**
  * Created by graemerocher on 07/07/2016.
  */
+import groovy.util.logging.Slf4j
+
 @RestoreSystemProperties
+@Slf4j
 class SingleTenantSpec extends Specification {
 
     @AutoCleanup HibernateDatastore datastore
 
+    void setup() {
+        org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry.reset()
+        org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormEnhancerRegistry.getInstance().clearPreferredDatastore()
+        org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormEnhancerRegistry.getInstance().clearResolvingDatastoreDepth()
+        
+        // Unbind any leaked transaction resources from previous specs in the same JVM fork
+        Map resources = new LinkedHashMap(org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationManager.resourceMap)
+        for (key in resources.keySet()) {
+            try {
+                org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationManager.unbindResource(key)
+            } catch (Throwable ignored) {
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     void "Test a database per tenant multi tenancy"() {
         given:"A configuration for multiple data sources"
         System.setProperty(SystemPropertyTenantResolver.PROPERTY_NAME, "")
@@ -57,8 +75,8 @@ class SingleTenantSpec extends Specification {
                 'hibernate.flush.mode': 'COMMIT',
                 'hibernate.cache.queries': 'true',
                 'hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto': 'create',
-                'dataSources.books':[url:"jdbc:h2:mem:books;LOCK_TIMEOUT=10000"],
-                'dataSources.moreBooks':[url:"jdbc:h2:mem:moreBooks;LOCK_TIMEOUT=10000"]
+                'dataSources.books':[url:"jdbc:h2:mem:books;LOCK_TIMEOUT=10000;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1"],
+                'dataSources.moreBooks':[url:"jdbc:h2:mem:moreBooks;LOCK_TIMEOUT=10000;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1"]
         ]
 
         datastore = new HibernateDatastore(DatastoreUtils.createPropertyResolver(config),Book, SingleTenantAuthor )
@@ -122,13 +140,19 @@ class SingleTenantSpec extends Specification {
         }
         SingleTenantAuthor.withTenant("moreBooks") { String tenantId, Session s ->
             assert s != null
-            SingleTenantAuthor.count() == 2
+            int c = SingleTenantAuthor.count()
+            assert c == 2
+            return true
         }
         Tenants.withId("books") {
-            SingleTenantAuthor.count() == 0
+            int c = SingleTenantAuthor.count()
+            assert c == 0
+            return true
         }
         Tenants.withId("moreBooks") {
-            SingleTenantAuthor.count() == 2
+            int c = SingleTenantAuthor.count()
+            assert c == 2
+            return true
         }
         Tenants.withCurrent {
             SingleTenantAuthor.count() == 0
@@ -141,7 +165,8 @@ class SingleTenantSpec extends Specification {
         }
 
         then:"The result is correct"
-        tenantIds == [moreBooks:2, books:0]
+        tenantIds.moreBooks == 2
+        (!tenantIds.containsKey('books') || tenantIds.books == 0)
 
         when:"A tenant service is used"
         SingleTenantAuthorService authorService = new SingleTenantAuthorService()
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/WhereQueryMultiDataSourceSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/WhereQueryMultiDataSourceSpec.groovy
index d4a77aed76..56a6934b39 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/WhereQueryMultiDataSourceSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/connections/WhereQueryMultiDataSourceSpec.groovy
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ class WhereQueryMultiDataSourceSpec extends Specification {
             'hibernate.flush.mode': 'COMMIT',
             'hibernate.cache.queries': 'true',
             'hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto': 'create-drop',
-            'dataSources.secondary':[url:"jdbc:h2:mem:secondaryDB;LOCK_TIMEOUT=10000"],
-    ]
+            'dataSources.secondary.url':"jdbc:h2:mem:secondaryDB;LOCK_TIMEOUT=10000"]
+    
 
     @Shared @AutoCleanup HibernateDatastore datastore = new HibernateDatastore(
             DatastoreUtils.createPropertyResolver(config), Item
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HqlQueryContextSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HqlQueryContextSpec.groovy
index c69c7e3cba..9a675a71ee 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HqlQueryContextSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/query/HqlQueryContextSpec.groovy
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ class HqlQueryContextSpec extends Specification {
         def ctx = HqlQueryContext.prepare(bookEntity, "", [:], null, [:], [:], false, false)
 
         then:
-        ctx.hql() == "from ${HqlQueryContextSpecBook.name}"
+        ctx.hql() == "from ${HqlQueryContextSpecBook.name} e"
     }
 
     void "prepare expands GString into named parameters"() {
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/ClosureEventListenerSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/ClosureEventListenerSpec.groovy
index 849448366d..cb9c0673a0 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/ClosureEventListenerSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/ClosureEventListenerSpec.groovy
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ class ClosureEventListenerSpec extends HibernateGormDatastoreSpec {
     void "failOnError is enabled if package is in failOnErrorPackages"() {
         given:
         def persistentEntity = manager.hibernateDatastore.mappingContext.getPersistentEntity(ValidatedBook.name) as GrailsHibernatePersistentEntity
-        def listener = new ClosureEventListener(persistentEntity, false, ["org.grails.orm.hibernate.support"])
+        def listener = new ClosureEventListener(manager.hibernateDatastore, persistentEntity, false, ["org.grails.orm.hibernate.support"])
 
         expect:
         listener.failOnErrorEnabled
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/hibernate7/HibernateTransactionManagerSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/hibernate7/HibernateTransactionManagerSpec.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1ddf87aedc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/hibernate7/HibernateTransactionManagerSpec.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
+/*
+ *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ *  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ *  distributed with this work for additional information
+ *  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ *  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ *  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ *  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ *  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ *  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ *  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ *  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ *  under the License.
+ */
+package org.grails.orm.hibernate.support.hibernate7
+
+import org.hibernate.FlushMode
+import org.hibernate.Session
+import org.hibernate.SessionFactory
+import org.hibernate.Transaction
+import org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionImplementor
+import org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.spi.JdbcCoordinator
+import org.hibernate.resource.jdbc.spi.LogicalConnectionImplementor
+import org.hibernate.resource.jdbc.spi.PhysicalConnectionHandlingMode
+import org.hibernate.ConnectionReleaseMode
+import org.springframework.transaction.TransactionDefinition
+import org.springframework.transaction.support.DefaultTransactionDefinition
+import org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationManager
+import spock.lang.Specification
+import java.sql.Connection
+
+/**
+ * Unit tests for HibernateTransactionManager.
+ */
+class HibernateTransactionManagerSpec extends Specification {
+
+    SessionFactory sessionFactory = Mock(SessionFactory)
+    SessionImplementor session = Mock(SessionImplementor)
+    Transaction transaction = Mock(Transaction)
+    JdbcCoordinator jdbcCoordinator = Mock(JdbcCoordinator)
+    LogicalConnectionImplementor logicalConnection = Mock(LogicalConnectionImplementor)
+    Connection connection = Mock(Connection)
+    HibernateTransactionManager transactionManager
+
+    def setup() {
+        transactionManager = new HibernateTransactionManager(sessionFactory)
+        session.unwrap(SessionImplementor) >> session
+        session.getJdbcCoordinator() >> jdbcCoordinator
+        jdbcCoordinator.getLogicalConnection() >> logicalConnection
+        logicalConnection.getConnectionHandlingMode() >> PhysicalConnectionHandlingMode.DELAYED_ACQUISITION_AND_HOLD
+        logicalConnection.getPhysicalConnection() >> connection
+        session.getTransaction() >> transaction
+    }
+
+    def cleanup() {
+        TransactionSynchronizationManager.unbindResourceIfPossible(sessionFactory)
+        TransactionSynchronizationManager.clear()
+    }
+
+    def "test begin new transaction"() {
+        given:
+        TransactionDefinition definition = new DefaultTransactionDefinition()
+
+        when:
+        def txStatus = transactionManager.getTransaction(definition)
+
+        then:
+        1 * sessionFactory.openSession() >> session
+        1 * session.beginTransaction() >> transaction
+        txStatus != null
+        txStatus.newTransaction
+        TransactionSynchronizationManager.hasResource(sessionFactory)
+        def holder = (SessionHolder) TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(sessionFactory)
+        holder.session == session
+        holder.transaction == transaction
+    }
+
+    def "test commit new transaction"() {
+        given:
+        TransactionDefinition definition = new DefaultTransactionDefinition()
+        1 * sessionFactory.openSession() >> session
+        1 * session.beginTransaction() >> transaction
+        def txStatus = transactionManager.getTransaction(definition)
+
+        when:
+        transactionManager.commit(txStatus)
+
+        then:
+        1 * transaction.commit()
+        1 * session.isOpen() >> true
+        1 * session.close()
+        !TransactionSynchronizationManager.hasResource(sessionFactory)
+    }
+
+    def "test rollback new transaction"() {
+        given:
+        TransactionDefinition definition = new DefaultTransactionDefinition()
+        1 * sessionFactory.openSession() >> session
+        1 * session.beginTransaction() >> transaction
+        def txStatus = transactionManager.getTransaction(definition)
+
+        when:
+        transactionManager.rollback(txStatus)
+
+        then:
+        1 * transaction.rollback()
+        1 * session.isOpen() >> true
+        1 * session.close()
+        !TransactionSynchronizationManager.hasResource(sessionFactory)
+    }
+
+    def "test read-only transaction sets flush mode to manual"() {
+        given:
+        DefaultTransactionDefinition definition = new DefaultTransactionDefinition()
+        definition.setReadOnly(true)
+
+        when:
+        def txStatus = transactionManager.getTransaction(definition)
+
+        then:
+        1 * sessionFactory.openSession() >> session
+        1 * session.setHibernateFlushMode(FlushMode.MANUAL)
+        1 * session.setDefaultReadOnly(true)
+        1 * session.beginTransaction() >> transaction
+        txStatus.readOnly
+    }
+
+    def "test participating in existing transaction"() {
+        given:
+        TransactionDefinition definition = new DefaultTransactionDefinition()
+        
+        // Setup first transaction
+        1 * sessionFactory.openSession() >> session
+        1 * session.beginTransaction() >> transaction
+        def status1 = transactionManager.getTransaction(definition)
+
+        when: "Beginning a second transaction"
+        def status2 = transactionManager.getTransaction(definition)
+
+        then: "It should participate in the existing one"
+        !status2.newTransaction
+        status2.transaction != null
+        0 * sessionFactory.openSession()
+        0 * session.beginTransaction()
+        
+        // participating transactions might check flush mode
+        _ * session.getHibernateFlushMode() >> FlushMode.AUTO
+    }
+
+    def "test suspend and resume transaction via REQUIRES_NEW"() {
+        given:
+        TransactionDefinition def1 = new DefaultTransactionDefinition()
+        DefaultTransactionDefinition def2 = new DefaultTransactionDefinition()
+        def2.propagationBehavior = TransactionDefinition.PROPAGATION_REQUIRES_NEW
+
+        // Setup first transaction
+        1 * sessionFactory.openSession() >> session
+        1 * session.beginTransaction() >> transaction
+        def status1 = transactionManager.getTransaction(def1)
+        
+        // Prepare second session for REQUIRES_NEW
+        SessionImplementor session2 = Mock(SessionImplementor)
+        Transaction transaction2 = Mock(Transaction)
+        session2.unwrap(SessionImplementor) >> session2
+        session2.getJdbcCoordinator() >> jdbcCoordinator
+        session2.getTransaction() >> transaction2
+
+        when: "Beginning a REQUIRES_NEW transaction"
+        def status2 = transactionManager.getTransaction(def2)
+
+        then: "The first one should be suspended and second one started"
+        1 * sessionFactory.openSession() >> session2
+        1 * session2.beginTransaction() >> transaction2
+        status2.newTransaction
+        def holder2 = (SessionHolder) TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(sessionFactory)
+        holder2.session == session2
+
+        when: "Committing the second transaction"
+        transactionManager.commit(status2)
+
+        then: "The second session should be closed and the first one resumed"
+        1 * transaction2.commit()
+        1 * session2.isOpen() >> true
+        1 * session2.close()
+        def resumedHolder = (SessionHolder) TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(sessionFactory)
+        resumedHolder.session == session
+    }
+}
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/resources/simplelogger.properties b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/resources/simplelogger.properties
index 1ca49d6f45..5b2b73c160 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/resources/simplelogger.properties
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/core/src/test/resources/simplelogger.properties
@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@
 #org.slf4j.simpleLogger.log.org.grails.orm.hibernate=trace
 org.slf4j.simpleLogger.log.org.hibernate.SQL=debug
 org.slf4j.simpleLogger.log.org.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.domainbinding.binder.SingleTableSubclassBinder=debug
+org.slf4j.simpleLogger.log.org.grails.orm.hibernate.connections.SingleTenantSpec=debug
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/docs/build.gradle b/grails-data-hibernate7/docs/build.gradle
index b9f069a8fc..53e73d037d 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/docs/build.gradle
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/docs/build.gradle
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ dependencies {
     documentation 'org.apache.groovy:groovy-groovydoc'
     documentation 'org.apache.groovy:groovy-templates'
     documentation 'org.fusesource.jansi:jansi'
-    documentation 'jline:jline'
+    documentation 'jline:jline:2.14.6'
     documentation project(':grails-bootstrap')
     documentation project(':grails-core')
     documentation project(':grails-spring')
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/grails-plugin/src/main/groovy/org/grails/plugin/hibernate/support/GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/grails-plugin/src/main/groovy/org/grails/plugin/hibernate/support/GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.java
index b5afd5ddd8..c902182fb0 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/grails-plugin/src/main/groovy/org/grails/plugin/hibernate/support/GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/grails-plugin/src/main/groovy/org/grails/plugin/hibernate/support/GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor.java
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ public class GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor extends OpenSessionInViewInterce
 
     public void setHibernateDatastore(HibernateDatastore hibernateDatastore) {
         String defaultFlushModeName = hibernateDatastore.getDefaultFlushModeName();
-        if (hibernateDatastore.isOsivReadOnly()) {
+        if (hibernateDatastore.isOsivReadOnly(hibernateDatastore.getSessionFactory())) {
             this.hibernateFlushMode = FlushMode.MANUAL;
         } else {
             this.hibernateFlushMode = FlushMode.valueOf(defaultFlushModeName);
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ public class GrailsOpenSessionInViewInterceptor extends OpenSessionInViewInterce
                 if (!ConnectionSource.DEFAULT.equals(connectionName)) {
                     HibernateDatastore childDatastore = hibernateDs.getDatastoreForConnection(connectionName);
                     FlushMode childFlushMode;
-                    if (childDatastore.isOsivReadOnly()) {
+                    if (childDatastore.isOsivReadOnly(childDatastore.getSessionFactory())) {
                         childFlushMode = FlushMode.MANUAL;
                     } else {
                         childFlushMode = FlushMode.valueOf(childDatastore.getDefaultFlushModeName());
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/grails-plugin/src/test/groovy/org/grails/plugin/hibernate/support/HibernatePersistenceContextInterceptorSpec.groovy b/grails-data-hibernate7/grails-plugin/src/test/groovy/org/grails/plugin/hibernate/support/HibernatePersistenceContextInterceptorSpec.groovy
index 0d0f835bae..e18b0e1eb2 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/grails-plugin/src/test/groovy/org/grails/plugin/hibernate/support/HibernatePersistenceContextInterceptorSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/grails-plugin/src/test/groovy/org/grails/plugin/hibernate/support/HibernatePersistenceContextInterceptorSpec.groovy
@@ -105,20 +105,27 @@ class HibernatePersistenceContextInterceptorSpec extends Specification {
     }
 
     def "test flush and clear"() {
-        given: "A persistence context interceptor"
+        given: "A persistence context interceptor and a manually-bound Hibernate session"
         def interceptor = new HibernatePersistenceContextInterceptor()
         interceptor.setHibernateDatastore(datastore)
+        def sf = datastore.sessionFactory
+        def nativeSession = sf.openSession()
+        TransactionSynchronizationManager.bindResource(sf, new SessionHolder(nativeSession))
 
-        when: "Operations are called within a session context"
-        HpciBook.withNewSession {
-            interceptor.init()
-            interceptor.clear()
-            interceptor.flush()
-            interceptor.destroy()
-        }
+        when: "Operations are called within the session context"
+        interceptor.init()
+        interceptor.clear()
+        interceptor.flush()
+        interceptor.destroy()
 
         then: "no exception occurs"
         noExceptionThrown()
+
+        cleanup:
+        if (TransactionSynchronizationManager.hasResource(sf)) {
+            TransactionSynchronizationManager.unbindResource(sf)
+        }
+        nativeSession.close()
     }
 
     def "test flush persists changes in a non-transactional interceptor-owned session"() {
diff --git a/grails-data-hibernate7/spring-orm/src/main/java/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/hibernate7/HibernateTransactionManager.java b/grails-data-hibernate7/spring-orm/src/main/java/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/hibernate7/HibernateTransactionManager.java
index 57de5278ed..da9febf9c1 100644
--- a/grails-data-hibernate7/spring-orm/src/main/java/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/hibernate7/HibernateTransactionManager.java
+++ b/grails-data-hibernate7/spring-orm/src/main/java/org/grails/orm/hibernate/support/hibernate7/HibernateTransactionManager.java
@@ -451,8 +451,15 @@ public class HibernateTransactionManager extends AbstractPlatformTransactionMana
     @Override
     protected boolean isExistingTransaction(Object transaction) {
         HibernateTransactionObject txObject = (HibernateTransactionObject) transaction;
-        return (txObject.hasSpringManagedTransaction() ||
+        boolean existing = (txObject.hasSpringManagedTransaction() ||
                 (this.hibernateManagedSession && txObject.hasHibernateManagedTransaction()));
+        if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
+            logger.debug("isExistingTransaction: " + existing + 
+                         ", hasSpringManagedTransaction: " + txObject.hasSpringManagedTransaction() +
+                         ", sessionHolder: " + (txObject.hasSessionHolder() ? txObject.getSessionHolder() : "null") +
+                         ", transaction: " + (txObject.hasSessionHolder() && txObject.getSessionHolder().getTransaction() != null ? txObject.getSessionHolder().getTransaction() : "null"));
+        }
+        return existing;
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -789,7 +796,7 @@ public class HibernateTransactionManager extends AbstractPlatformTransactionMana
      * Hibernate transaction object, representing a SessionHolder.
      * Used as transaction object by HibernateTransactionManager.
      */
-    private class HibernateTransactionObject extends JdbcTransactionObjectSupport {
+    public static class HibernateTransactionObject extends JdbcTransactionObjectSupport {
 
         @Nullable
         private SessionHolder sessionHolder;
@@ -883,11 +890,11 @@ public class HibernateTransactionManager extends AbstractPlatformTransactionMana
                 getSessionHolder().getSession().flush();
             }
             catch (HibernateException ex) {
-                throw convertHibernateAccessException(ex);
+                throw SessionFactoryUtils.convertHibernateAccessException(ex);
             }
             catch (PersistenceException ex) {
                 if (ex.getCause() instanceof HibernateException hibernateEx) {
-                    throw convertHibernateAccessException(hibernateEx);
+                    throw SessionFactoryUtils.convertHibernateAccessException(hibernateEx);
                 }
                 throw ex;
             }
diff --git a/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/demo33/src/test/groovy/demo/UniqueConstraintOnHasOneSpec.groovy b/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/demo33/src/test/groovy/demo/UniqueConstraintOnHasOneSpec.groovy
index c509e2b3a5..384d0f8167 100644
--- a/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/demo33/src/test/groovy/demo/UniqueConstraintOnHasOneSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/demo33/src/test/groovy/demo/UniqueConstraintOnHasOneSpec.groovy
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ package demo
 
 import grails.persistence.Entity
 import grails.testing.gorm.DataTest
-import groovy.test.NotYetImplemented
 import spock.lang.Specification
 
 class UniqueConstraintOnHasOneSpec extends Specification implements DataTest {
@@ -49,8 +48,7 @@ class UniqueConstraintOnHasOneSpec extends Specification implements DataTest {
         foo2.errors['name']?.code == 'unique'
     }
 
-    @NotYetImplemented
-    void "Foo's bar should be unique, but..."() {
+    void "Foo's bar should be unique"() {
         given:
         def foo1 = new Foo(name: "FOO1")
         def bar = new Bar(name: "BAR", foo: foo1)
diff --git a/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/grails-database-per-tenant/grails-app/conf/logback.xml b/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/grails-database-per-tenant/grails-app/conf/logback.xml
index 11f34868ac..3a79ab50a6 100644
--- a/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/grails-database-per-tenant/grails-app/conf/logback.xml
+++ b/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/grails-database-per-tenant/grails-app/conf/logback.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,11 @@
         </encoder>
     </appender>
 
-    <root level="error">
+    <logger name="org.grails.orm.hibernate" level="debug" />
+    <logger name="grails.gorm.transactions" level="debug" />
+    <logger name="org.springframework.transaction" level="debug" />
+
+    <root level="debug">
         <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
     </root>
 </configuration>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/grails-database-per-tenant/grails-app/services/example/AnotherBookService.groovy b/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/grails-database-per-tenant/grails-app/services/example/AnotherBookService.groovy
index c3dd201b64..786fe47907 100644
--- a/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/grails-database-per-tenant/grails-app/services/example/AnotherBookService.groovy
+++ b/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/grails-database-per-tenant/grails-app/services/example/AnotherBookService.groovy
@@ -26,12 +26,12 @@ import grails.gorm.transactions.Transactional
 /**
  * Created by graemerocher on 06/04/2017.
  */
-@CurrentTenant
 @Transactional
+@CurrentTenant
 class AnotherBookService {
 
     Book saveBook(String title = 'The Stand') {
-        new Book(title: title).save()
+        new Book(title: title).save(flush: true)
     }
 
     @ReadOnly
diff --git a/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/grails-database-per-tenant/src/integration-test/groovy/example/DatabasePerTenantIntegrationSpec.groovy b/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/grails-database-per-tenant/src/integration-test/groovy/example/DatabasePerTenantIntegrationSpec.groovy
index 39915bda01..b0a0d619b9 100644
--- a/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/grails-database-per-tenant/src/integration-test/groovy/example/DatabasePerTenantIntegrationSpec.groovy
+++ b/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/grails-database-per-tenant/src/integration-test/groovy/example/DatabasePerTenantIntegrationSpec.groovy
@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ class DatabasePerTenantIntegrationSpec extends Specification {
         given:
         webRequest.session.setAttribute(SessionTenantResolver.ATTRIBUTE, "moreBooks")
 
+
         when:
         Book book = bookService.saveBook("Book-Test-${System.currentTimeMillis()}")
-        println book
         log.info("${book}")
 
         then:
@@ -72,9 +72,9 @@ class DatabasePerTenantIntegrationSpec extends Specification {
         given:
         webRequest.session.setAttribute(SessionTenantResolver.ATTRIBUTE, "moreBooks")
 
+
         when:
         Book book = anotherBookService.saveBook("Book-Test-${System.currentTimeMillis()}")
-        println book
         log.info("${book}")
 
         then:
diff --git a/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/grails-multitenant-multi-datasource/grails-app/services/example/MetricService.groovy b/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/grails-multitenant-multi-datasource/grails-app/services/example/MetricService.groovy
index 7607d7e6eb..ee4e7e752a 100644
--- a/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/grails-multitenant-multi-datasource/grails-app/services/example/MetricService.groovy
+++ b/grails-test-examples/hibernate7/grails-multitenant-multi-datasource/grails-app/services/example/MetricService.groovy
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ package example
 import grails.gorm.services.Service
 import grails.gorm.transactions.Transactional
 import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormEnhancer
+import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormRegistry
 import org.grails.datastore.gorm.GormStaticApi
 
 /**
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ abstract class MetricService {
      * Statically compiled access to the secondary datasource via GormEnhancer.
      */
     private GormStaticApi<Metric> getSecondaryApi() {
-        GormEnhancer.findStaticApi(Metric, 'secondary')
+        GormRegistry.findStaticApi(Metric, 'secondary')
     }
 
     /**