This issue still exists with Hibernate version 4.2.15.Final.
This is the code that we are using :

Criteria fetchDsceDerivedDataCriteria = sess.createCriteria(EnrichedDataBO.class);

fetchDsceDerivedDataCriteria.setProjection(projList)
.add(Restrictions.eq(CECommonConstant.PROPERTY_STATUS ,CommonConstant.STATUS_READY_FOR_SUBMISSION))
// .addOrder(Order.asc(CommonConstant.PROPERTY_PNEMONIC_NAME))
.setResultTransformer(Transformers.aliasToBean(TestBO.class));

fetchDsceDerivedDataCriteria.setLockMode(LockMode.PESSIMISTIC_WRITE);

return fetchDsceDerivedDataCriteria;
Regards
Ram