IANE, but I've never used e.g. ti.name= (:name), just ti.name=:name . Do you have debug info of the generated statements? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4021579#4021579 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4021579