NamedQuery

[schoetz]

Is there already support for named queries?

If there is so, how do I use them? So far I can't get it working. I always get an "org.hibernate.MappingException: Named query not known: userByName" even if the NamedQuery is defined in an @NamedQuery Annotation at the method I try to access it.

Just a note to Specification compatibility. The @NamedQuery Annotation in preview 4 has not all required attributes and one has a wrong name (ejbql instead of queryString

schoetz

[bill.burke]

Sorry, I don't support them yet. I'm not sure they are very useful so I've been putting off implementing them. THoughts?

[robdaemon]

Sorry, I don't support them yet. I'm not sure they are very useful so I've been putting off implementing them. THoughts?

I was using them quite extensively in Hibernate2 but I've since started converting code to use Hibernate3 and annotations. I ended up reverting to declaring the queries in "public static final String"s instead.

One of the reasons I prefer named queries is if I need to update a query quickly, it was defined at the top of my data POJO in an XDoclet annotation, and I put all the queries that involved that bean there. I felt more organized that way :)

[kabirkhan]

OK, these are implemented in cvs now. See this for more comments:

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/EJBTHREE-99