Hibernate is chugging along well for my other tables but something about this simple query is stuffing it in the translation from HQL to SQL.
A particular column in SQL called family_name iis mapped to familyName.
When I execute a HQL query as such:
 from au.com.iman.claims.common.ClaimsPayment where familyName >= ''   order by familyName
The SQL generated is:
select claimspaym0_.id as id, claimspaym0_.member_id as member_id, claimspaym0_.policy_id as policy_id, claimspaym0_.entry_date as entry_date, claimspaym0_.family_name as family_n5_, claimspaym0_.amount as amount, claimspaym0_.coverage as coverage from claims_payments claimspaym0_ where (familyName>='' ) order by  familyName limit ?
Notice that it has successfully translated family_name for the select fields but not for the Order By or Where criteria???
Odd bug. 
Hibernate version: 
2.1.3
Mapping documents:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
    "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 2.0//EN"
    "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-2.0.dtd" >
    
<hibernate-mapping
	package="au.com.iman.claims.common">
<!-- 
    Created by the Middlegen Hibernate plugin
    
http://boss.bekk.no/boss/middlegen/
    http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/
-->
<class 
    name="ClaimsPayment" 
    table="claims_payments"
>
    <id
        name="id"
        type="int"
        column="id"
    >
        <generator class="assigned" />
    </id>
    <property
        name="memberId"
        type="int"
        column="member_id"
        length="4"
    />
    <property
        name="policyId"
        type="int"
        column="policy_id"
        length="4"
    />
    <property
        name="entryDate"
        type="java.sql.Date"
        column="entry_date"
        length="4"
    />
    <property
        name="familyName"
        type="java.lang.String"
        column="family_name"
        length="80"
    />
    <property
        name="amount"
        type="java.math.BigDecimal"
        column="amount"
        length="-1"
    />
    <property
        name="coverage"
        type="java.lang.String"
        column="coverage"
        length="6"
    />
    <!-- associations -->
    <!-- bi-directional one-to-many association to Cheques -->
    <set
        name="cheques"
        lazy="true"
        inverse="true"
    >
        <key>
            <column name="claims_payment_id" />
        </key>
        <one-to-many 
            class="Cheque"
        />
    </set>
    <!-- bi-directional one-to-many association to Claim -->
    <set
        name="claims"
        lazy="true"
        inverse="true"
    >
        <key>
            <column name="claims_payment_id" />
        </key>
        <one-to-many 
            class="Claim"
        />
    </set>
    <!-- bi-directional one-to-many association to OverrideNot -->
    <set
        name="overrideNotes"
        lazy="true"
        inverse="true"
    >
        <key>
            <column name="claims_payment_id" />
        </key>
        <one-to-many 
            class="OverrideNote"
        />
    </set>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>
Code between sessionFactory.openSession() and session.close():
			tx = hibernateSession.beginTransaction();
			// Calculate max results needed.
			int maxResults = queryEvent.getQueryStart().intValue()
					+ queryEvent.getQueryReturnSize() - 1;
			logger.info("max rows:" + maxResults);
			String securityWhere = " ";
			
			// Work out security where based on the user id's access rights.
			// eg " AND customerCode = "FRED01"
			
			
			String newQuery = " from " + event.getEventSubType() // ? queryEvent field?
					+ " where " + queryEvent.getQueryWhere()
					+ securityWhere + " order by "
					+ queryEvent.getQueryOrderBy();
			
			int queryStart = queryEvent.getQueryStart().intValue() -1 ;
			int queryEnd   = maxResults;
			List rowsetList = hibernateSession.createQuery(
					newQuery).setMaxResults(maxResults).setFetchSize(maxResults).setFirstResult(queryStart).list();
			/*
			 * Now store the rowset result in the queryevent for returning..
			 */
			queryEvent.setQueryRowSet(rowsetList);
			
			tx.commit();
Full stack trace of any exception that occurs:
Name and version of the database you are using:
Postgresql
The generated SQL (show_sql=true):
select claimspaym0_.id as id, claimspaym0_.member_id as member_id, claimspaym0_.policy_id as policy_id, claimspaym0_.entry_date as entry_date, claimspaym0_.family_name as family_n5_, claimspaym0_.amount as amount, claimspaym0_.coverage as coverage from claims_payments claimspaym0_ where (familyName>='' ) order by  familyName limit ?
Debug level Hibernate log excerpt:
17:11:22,536 DEBUG [QueryTranslator] HQL:  from au.com.iman.claims.common.ClaimsPayment where familyName >= ''   order by familyName
17:11:22,537 DEBUG [QueryTranslator] SQL: select claimspaym0_.id as id, claimspaym0_.member_id as member_id, claimspaym0_.policy_id as policy_id, claimspaym0_.entry_date as entry_date, claimspaym0_.family_name as family_n5_, claimspaym0_.amount as amount, claimspaym0_.coverage as coverage from claims_payments claimspaym0_ where (familyName>='' ) order by  familyName
17:11:22,538 DEBUG [BatcherImpl] about to open: 0 open PreparedStatements, 0 open ResultSets
17:11:22,539 DEBUG [SQL] select claimspaym0_.id as id, claimspaym0_.member_id as member_id, claimspaym0_.policy_id as policy_id, claimspaym0_.entry_date as entry_date, claimspaym0_.family_name as family_n5_, claimspaym0_.amount as amount, claimspaym0_.coverage as coverage from claims_payments claimspaym0_ where (familyName>='' ) order by  familyName limit ?
17:11:22,540 INFO  [STDOUT] Hibernate: select claimspaym0_.id as id, claimspaym0_.member_id as member_id, claimspaym0_.policy_id as policy_id, claimspaym0_.entry_date as entry_date, claimspaym0_.family_name as family_n5_, claimspaym0_.amount as amount, claimspaym0_.coverage as coverage from claims_payments claimspaym0_ where (familyName>='' ) order by  familyName limit ?
17:11:22,541 DEBUG [BatcherImpl] preparing statement
17:11:22,719 DEBUG [JDBCExceptionReporter] SQL Exception
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: column "familyname" does not exist
        at org.postgresql.util.PSQLException.parseServerError(PSQLException.java:139)
        at org.postgresql.core.QueryExecutor.executeV3(QueryExecutor.java:154)