HV does not take care "`" to avoid reserved keywords in the sql statements -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HV-271 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HV-271 Project: Hibernate Validator Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 3.0.0.ga Reporter: Strong Liu Assignee: Hardy Ferentschik this can be reproduced by JPAValidateListenerTest on oracle Model org.hibernate.validator.test.jpa.Submarine contains a property named "size", which gets translated to column "size", but this word is reserved in Oracle, causing exceptions in SchemaExport (create table) and consequently the test fails. After quoting[1] the name of the column, the DDL for the table becomes incorrect, causing a failure in Oracle. When using a different[2] name, the test passes. Failure when using [1]: 17:45:44,631 ERROR SchemaExport:274 - Unsuccessful: create table Submarine (id number(19,0) not null, commander_name varchar2(255 char), name varchar2(255 char) not null, "size" number(19,0) check (size>=10), primary key (id)) 17:45:44,632 ERROR SchemaExport:275 - ORA-00936: missing expression [1] @Column(name="`size`") [2] @Column(name="xsize") -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira