I installed Hibernate 3.1.3 on Weblogic 8.1.
I've set the "hibernate.query.factory_class" property value to "org.hibernate.hql.classic.ClassicQueryTranslatorFactory".

For the update statement:

update Token set counter = :counter where id = :id


I'm getting the following:

"org.hibernate.QueryException: query must begin with SELECT or FROM: update [update com.symantec.eb.vo.TokenVO set....."


HQL support of updating single fields is part of 3.1.3, and therefore requires the new parser library antlr?
Currently, I haven't set it as the first thing in Weblogic's classpath as I'm not sure I'll be able to change it on our production machines.
Or am I barking at the wrong tree?

Are there any work arounds?

Isn't that just because you're using the classic parser? I can't see any reference to an update keyword in the classic parser, it simply doesn't support update.

As I'm new to Hibernate, I wanted to confirm that.
Thanks.