HQL nested property reference without alias doesn't work if the property is *not* a component --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-1107 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1107 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Components: core Affects Versions: 3.0.5, 3.1 rc2 Reporter: Joshua Davis Assignee: Joshua Davis Original Estimate: 24h Time Spent: 4h Remaining Estimate: 20h HQL nested property reference without alias doesn't work if the property is *not* a component. WORKAROUND: Use an alias. If an HQL expression without an allias refers to a nested property inside an association (or a collection), then the property is resolved incorrectly. It treats the nested property reference as if it were a property of the non-aliased entity. For example, in the Animal/Zoo mappings in the Hibernate unit tests: from Animal where zoo.address.street = '123 Bogus St.' the expression zoo.address.street attempts to resolve 'address' inside Animal, not Zoo. This is because the IdentNode code assumes that anything that isn't a component is a property reference, when what it should do is resolve the association and generate an implied join.