I have these JPA named queries in my entity class, containing a 'select new' clause, and which work great in JPA environment.

When I try to bootstrap Hibernate with an AnnotationConfig invocation, then Hibernate tells me that these queries have errors.


What should I do ?

Can I tell hibernate not to process certain named queries ? Or what can I do ?

I'm not sure weather I understand you problem correctly.
But couldn't you use jpa with hibernate and use the hibernate session if you need features which aren't accessible in jpa?
This way you wouldn't run into problems with your jpql queries.

The problem is that obviously Hibernate doesnt recognize 'select new' named queries. ;]

How can this be worked around ?

Hm, I thought you were trying to make hql-queries work with jpa annotations.
Could you please post one of these queries and the error messsage you get?