When I use a conversion function in a hibernate filter to convert a string parameter to a date, the colon : character in the time description, e.g. 15:05:03 is always replaced with 15:<filter-name>.05:<filter-name>.03

I've tried escaping it with :: but this results in :<filter-name>.:<filter-name>.

Is there some workaround for this ?

I'm using hibernate-core 3.3.0.CR1

I worked around this by using the timestamp parameter type directly instead of converting/casting strings using the database. That worked flawlessly and the respective database datatypes for java.util.date were timestamp in oracle and datetime for sql server express...