In 4.3's online doc(http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/4.3/manual/en-US/html_single/#d5e8301), section 18.1.1, it mentions

To avoid the overhead of using ResultSetMetadata, or simply to be more explicit in what is returned, one can use addScalar():

sess.createSQLQuery("SELECT * FROM CATS")
.addScalar("ID", Hibernate.LONG)
.addScalar("NAME", Hibernate.STRING)
.addScalar("BIRTHDATE", Hibernate.DATE)

But there is no constant "STRING" or "DATE" in class Hibernate any more, pls update the doc