Hi Jürgen, that's not possible. You cannot use parameters to control ordering. There are same posts in this forum regarding this problem, but there were no "brilliant" solutions. In your case (you don't use named queries), you could simply add the order by column to your query: Query query = em.createQuery("select d from Domaindata AS d ORDER BY " + orderByColumn); Hope this helps Wolfgang View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4025860#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...