Hibernate version: 2.1

I didn't see anything about this in the FAQ. I tried to do a simple find following the examples in Section 9.3 of the Reference Document.

My code looks like the following:
List userList = hibSession.find("from User as u where u.name = ?",
name, Hibernate.STRING);

When my code executes, I get the following message;
unexpected token: as [from User as u where u.name = ?]

Any hints on what is going wrong? It seems like a very simple statement and I am trying to reproduce the example as closely as I can.

The example from Section 9.3 is:
List cats = sess.find(
"from Cat as cat where cat.birthdate = ?",
date,
Hibernate.DATE
);

just try taking out "as" .
from User u .....

Usually means that the preceeding object name ( ie User ) has not been registered in the configuration/sessionfactory.

Thanks. The problem was that I was using the name of the database table ("User"), instead of the name of the persistent class ("HIBUser").