I'm a REAL newbie to Hibernate, so I need som basic help.
This is my Java code :

session = stack.getMessage().getTrans().getDBConnection();
hql = session.createQuery("SELECT f FROM com f WHERE f.id = :name" );
System.out.println("DETAIL : " + msg.getDetail ("container.in.id" ));
hql.setParameter(":name", msg.getDetail ( "container.in.id" ));
System.out.println("HQL : " + hql.getQueryString());

And the output I get is :

DETAIL : 4028fb7a
HQL : SELECT f FROM com.abpro.babel.CommsIn f WHERE f.id = :name

Where I had expected the result from
hql.getQueryString as :

HQL : SELECT f FROM com.abpro.babel.CommsIn f WHERE f.id = 4028fb7a

Could someone please help me with the correct way of binding
a value to a parameter, because the :name is not replaced by 4028fb7a
as I want ?

Regards

hql.setParameter(":name", msg.getDetail ( "container.in.id" ));

should be

hql.setParameter("name", msg.getDetail ( "container.in.id" ));

Hmm strangely, this gives the same result. Do You have any other suggestions ?

hql.getQueryString does not give you the SQL acutally executed but the String you defined with createQuery(). Enable Hibernate SQL logging and check the log.

Actually, the problem was the hql-query :

hql = session.createQuery("SELECT f FROM com f WHERE f.id = :name" );

should have been

hql = session.createQuery("SELECT f FROM com f WHERE f.id = ':name'" );

with single quotes around the :name.

I don't really know if this is right though, I don't get any exceptions,
but I can't see the replaced value of :name, in the Hibernate logging.

no, you should never put quotes around a parameter