Hi,
I'm using Jboss4.0 with mySQL 4.0
My ejb-jar.xml contains EJB-QL like this :

<ejb-ql>
<![CDATA[select object(a) from ProductBean as a where basePrice < ?1]]>
</ejb-ql>

Whan I deploy my jar which contains above xml then Jboss server throws excpetion like this:
2005-02-07 14:36:43,369 DEBUG [org.jboss.util.NestedThrowable] org.jboss.util.NestedThrowable.parentTraceEnabled=true
2005-02-07 14:36:43,369 DEBUG [org.jboss.util.NestedThrowable] org.jboss.util.NestedThrowable.nestedTraceEnabled=false
2005-02-07 14:36:43,369 DEBUG [org.jboss.util.NestedThrowable] org.jboss.util.NestedThrowable.detectDuplicateNesting=true
2005-02-07 14:36:43,369 ERROR [org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer] Starting failed jboss.j2ee:jndiName=Product,service=EJB
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Error compiling EJB-QL statement 'select object(a) from ProductBean as a where basePrice < ?1'; - nested throwable: (org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.ejbql.ParseException: Encountered "basePrice" at line 1, column 46.
Was expecting one of:
"NOT" ...
"(" ...
<COLLECTION_VALUED_PATH> ...
<STRING_VALUED_PATH> ...
"CONCAT" ...
"SUBSTRING" ...
<BOOLEAN_VALUED_PATH> ...
<DATETIME_VALUED_PATH> ...
<ENTITY_VALUED_PATH> ...
<IDENTIFICATION_VARIABLE> ...
<NUMERIC_VALUED_PATH> ...
"LENGTH" ...
"LOCATE" ...
"ABS" ...
"SQRT" ...
"MOD" ...
"+" ...
"-" ...
<INTEGER_LITERAL> ...
<FLOATING_POINT_LITERAL> ...
<NUMERIC_VALUED_PARAMETER> ...
)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCEJBQLQuery.(JDBCEJBQLQuery.java:52)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCCommandFactory.createEJBQLQuery(JDBCCommandFactory.java:60)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCQueryManager.start(JDBCQueryManager.java:271)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCStoreManager.startStoreManager(JDBCStoreManager.java:498)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCStoreManager.start(JDBCStoreManager.java:396)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.CMPPersistenceManager.start(CMPPersistenceManager.java:157)
at org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer.startService(EntityContainer.java:348)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalStart(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:271)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalLifecycle(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:221)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor3.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:141)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:80)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:72)
at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:230)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:642)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceController.java:844)
at $Proxy18.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:369)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor6.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:141)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:80)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:72)
at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:230)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:642)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:176)
at $Proxy52.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.ejb.EjbModule.startService(EjbModule.java:394)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalStart(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:271)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalLifecycle(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:221)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor3.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:141)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:80)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:72)
at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:230)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:642)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceController.java:844)
at $Proxy18.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:369)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor6.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:141)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:80)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:72)
at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:230)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:642)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:176)
at $Proxy15.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.ejb.EJBDeployer.start(EJBDeployer.java:605)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:863)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:674)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:637)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor10.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:141)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:80)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:72)
at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:230)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:642)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:176)
at $Proxy7.deploy(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:304)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:478)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:201)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.loop(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:212)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.run(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:191)

It seems something is wrong while specifying "<" opearator. I'm afraid JBoss treats "<" operator as XML tag of Starting item!!

Pls. help. Thx in advance!
-Anagha