Would be nice if "as" keyword in SELECT part will be optional too.

I.e. write
SELECT b a FROM Branch b

instead of
SELECT b AS a FROM Branch b

if you'll miss "AS" keyword you'll get an exception

org.hibernate.hql.internal.ast.ErrorCounter:73 - line 1:10: unexpected token: a -
line 1:10: unexpected token: a
at org.hibernate.hql.internal.antlr.HqlBaseParser.aliasedExpression(HqlBaseParser.java:2416)
at org.hibernate.hql.internal.antlr.HqlBaseParser.selectedPropertiesList(HqlBaseParser.java:1415)
at org.hibernate.hql.internal.antlr.HqlBaseParser.selectClause(HqlBaseParser.java:1325)
at org.hibernate.hql.internal.antlr.HqlBaseParser.selectFrom(HqlBaseParser.java:1062)
at org.hibernate.hql.internal.antlr.HqlBaseParser.queryRule(HqlBaseParser.java:731)
at org.hibernate.hql.internal.antlr.HqlBaseParser.selectStatement(HqlBaseParser.java:323)
at org.hibernate.hql.internal.antlr.HqlBaseParser.statement(HqlBaseParser.java:186)
at org.hibernate.hql.internal.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.parse(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:295)
at org.hibernate.hql.internal.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.doCompile(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:203)
at org.hibernate.hql.internal.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.compile(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:158)
at org.hibernate.engine.query.spi.HQLQueryPlan.<init>(HQLQueryPlan.java:131)
at org.hibernate.engine.query.spi.HQLQueryPlan.<init>(HQLQueryPlan.java:93)
at org.hibernate.engine.query.spi.QueryPlanCache.getHQLQueryPlan(QueryPlanCache.java:167)
at org.hibernate.internal.AbstractSessionImpl.getHQLQueryPlan(AbstractSessionImpl.java:301)
at org.hibernate.internal.AbstractSessionImpl.createQuery(AbstractSessionImpl.java:236)
at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.createQuery(SessionImpl.java:1836)
at com.softgenic.basis.appl.HibernatePersistenceController.createQuery(HibernatePersistenceController.java:214)