@JoinColumn annotation doesn't fully support column names requiring double-quotes --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HIBERNATE-142 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/HIBERNATE-142 Project: Hibernate Integration Issue Type: Bug Environment: Hibernate 4.2.4-Final Eclipse Juno J2EE 3.0 Web app Reporter: Paul Spinelli Assignee: Steve Ebersole Priority: Minor Due to the way an existing database schema has been configured, my JPA annotations (using Hibernate as my provider) all required that table names/column names be double-quoted: (e.g. String ID_COLUMN_NAME = "\"Id\"";) This does not pose a problem EXCEPT when using the @JoinColumn annotation (specifically, the 'referencedColumnName' attribute). This DOES NOT work (I get an error that the logical column name cannot be found): @JoinColumn(name=ID_COLUMN_NAME, referencedColumnName=ID_COLUMN_NAME) However, this DOES work: @JoinColumn(name=ID_COLUMN_NAME, referencedColumnName="`Id`") It seems that the 'name' attribute supports double-quotes while the 'referencedColumnName' attribute does not. Is there a reason it should not?