When debugging, it is tedious to look at one of the complex queries that Hibernate generates, which, of course, are logged all in one line of text.

A handy tool would be something that would break up the line in an intelligent manner, making it easier to understand the query at a glance.

Can someone point me at a utility that does this? I have written such things before, but I don't have one handy now.

I suppose you havent used this property setting in your hibernate.cfg.xml file.

<property name="format_sql">true</property>

With this property setting, the query is logged to multiple lines instead of one line.

and have no choice in that matter.

3.0.5 does not provide that property. :-(