Christian Groove [http://community.jboss.org/people/TheGroove] created the discussion "Weired JPA named query @NamedQuery behaviour" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/582625#582625 -------------------------------------------------------------- Salut i recogniozed a strange behaviour, declaring anmed queries with a annotation. Here is some code: @NamedQueries(     {         @NamedQuery(             name=Dbean1.GET_COMPOSITION,             query=Dbean1.JPQL_COMPOSITION)     } ) where: @Entity public class Dbean1. implements Serializable {    /* some code */    final public static String GET_COMPOSITION = ".... composition " ;    final public static String GET_COMPOSITION = "SELECT dbean FROM ..... " ; this looks fine. But imagine iff you a to implement a recurring part of the where expression and start thinking of a java code, that could help you to create that JPA-QL string. So when you write: @Entity public class Dbean1. implements Serializable {    /* some code */    final public static String GET_COMPOSITION      = ".... composition " ;    final public static String *GENERATED_WHERE_EXPR* = generateWehreCompo() ;    final public static String GET_COMPOSITION      =                           "SELECT dbean FROM ..... +                           WHERE" + *GENERATED_WHERE_EXPR*  ... ; JBoss5.1 will tell you "+The value for annotation attribute NamedQuery.query must be a+ +constant expression+" So is final private static not constant enough ??? -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/582625#582625] Start a new discussion in EJB3 at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]