[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Closed: (HHH-4921) 3.5 (JPA 2) doesn't allow order by alias

3.5 (JPA 2) doesn't allow order by alias ---------------------------------------- Key: HHH-4921 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-4921 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Components: core Affects Versions: 3.5.0-CR-1 Reporter: Tomasz Bech Attachments: JPAQLComplianceTest.java I've created following test case in JPAQLComplianceTest.java: public void testOrderByAlias() { Session s = openSession(); s.createQuery( "select c.name as myname FROM Item c ORDER BY myname" ).list(); s.close(); } and it fails: Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Column not found: MYNAME in statement [select item0_.NAME as col_0_0_ from EJB3_ITEM item0_ order by myname] at org.hsqldb.jdbc.Util.throwError(Unknown Source) at org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcPreparedStatement.<init>(Unknown Source) at org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcConnection.prepareStatement(Unknown Source) at org.hibernate.jdbc.AbstractBatcher.getPreparedStatement(AbstractBatcher.java:534) at org.hibernate.jdbc.AbstractBatcher.getPreparedStatement(AbstractBatcher.java:452) at org.hibernate.jdbc.AbstractBatcher.prepareQueryStatement(AbstractBatcher.java:161) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.prepareQueryStatement(Loader.java:1598) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQuery(Loader.java:718) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQueryAndInitializeNonLazyCollections(Loader.java:271) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doList(Loader.java:2273) ... 30 more Spec says in '4.9 ORDER BY Clause' that 'order by alias' is supported by JPA 2.