hehe - MyEclipse bundles Hibernate Tools but does not know that HQL is a superset of JPQL ;) Anyhow, hibernate tools does not put such arbitrary restrictions in place. The HQL editor supports both HQL and JPAQL because HQL>JPAQL. It just needs a Hibernate Console configuration which can be based on JPA META-INF/persistence.xml and hence be JPA based - this is how we support if for Seam projects. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4125332#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...