Hi all ! I have an EJB 3 Entity bean which issues some queries. The Queries include some Date field in the WHERE clause SELECT OBJECT(a) FROM TaskList AS a WHERE a.taskEndDate ='2004-09-01' Unfortunately Hibernate seems doesn't like it at all....it issues a org.hibernate.exception.DataException: could not execute query and beneath it: ORA-01861: literal does not match format string Unfortunately I cannot use named parameters in my Query. Query are stored in the DB as shortcuts so they have the Date hardcopied in it. Is there a to_date equivalent in HSQL ? any help? thanks marco View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4212895#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...