i am having a similar issue. i appears that the "name" attribute of my @Column annotation is being ignored and the query is being constructed using the attribute's name and not the name assigned from the annotation. is there a common reason why JPA/Hibernate would ignore the annotation's name attribute and just reflect the field name as the column name? == s View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4163700#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...