Introduced MappingContext.getPersistentPropertyPath(String, Class<?>) to allow looking up a PersistentPropertyPath from a plain dot-notated path expression (e.g. foo.bar.foobar). This removes the need to use a PropertyPath in case you really only want to look up plain path expressions and the additional functionality in PropertyPath (camel case traversal and interpreting _ as hard delimiter) is not needed or wanted.