[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (BVAL-207) Hibernate 3.5.1-Final cannot parse order-by fragment

Hibernate 3.5.1-Final cannot parse order-by fragment ---------------------------------------------------- Key: BVAL-207 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/BVAL-207 Project: Bean Validation Issue Type: Bug Environment: Hibernate 3.5.1-Final MySQL 5.0 Spring 2.5 Reporter: Vladimir Kobetic Priority: Critical When upgrading from Hibernate 3.2.5.ga to the newest Hibernate 3.5.1-Final with the newest build-with dependent libraries an error occurs during initial phase of launching application. I tried to build and run with all libraries from lib directory from Hibernate zip download. The order-by clause is configured in hbm.xml: <hibernate-mapping> <class name="com.test.Object" table="err"> <id name="id" type="java.lang.Long"> <generator class="native" /> </id> <set name="history" table="history" lazy="true" order-by="timestamp desc" cascade="all-delete-orphan"> <key column="object_id" /> <one-to-many class="com.test.Event" /> </set> </class> </hibernate-mapping> The exception is: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in class path resource [applicationContext-dao-hibernate.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.hibernate.HibernateException: Unable to parse order-by fragment Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Unable to parse order-by fragment at org.hibernate.sql.ordering.antlr.OrderByFragmentTranslator.render(OrderByFragmentTranslator.java:66) at org.hibernate.sql.Template.renderOrderByStringTemplate(Template.java:310) at org.hibernate.persister.collection.AbstractCollectionPersister.<init>(AbstractCollectionPersister.java:557) at org.hibernate.persister.collection.OneToManyPersister.<init>(OneToManyPersister.java:84) at org.hibernate.persister.PersisterFactory.createCollectionPersister(PersisterFactory.java:104) and more... Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.hibernate.sql.ordering.antlr.OrderByFragmentParser.resolveFunction(OrderByFragmentParser.java:115) at org.hibernate.sql.ordering.antlr.GeneratedOrderByFragmentParser.expression(GeneratedOrderByFragmentParser.java:619) at org.hibernate.sql.ordering.antlr.GeneratedOrderByFragmentParser.sortKey(GeneratedOrderByFragmentParser.java:337) at org.hibernate.sql.ordering.antlr.GeneratedOrderByFragmentParser.sortSpecification(GeneratedOrderByFragmentParser.java:248) at org.hibernate.sql.ordering.antlr.GeneratedOrderByFragmentParser.orderByFragment(GeneratedOrderByFragmentParser.java:192) at org.hibernate.sql.ordering.antlr.OrderByFragmentTranslator.render(OrderByFragmentTranslator.java:60) ... 38 more