@Entity(name="Constraint")
@Table(name="`Constraint`")
public class Constraint
{
....

package com.mdpframework.dataaccess.hibernate;

import org.hibernate.cfg.DefaultNamingStrategy;
import org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect;

public class DefaultQuotedNamingStrategy extends DefaultNamingStrategy
{
   private static Dialect _dialect = new MySQLInnoDBUTF8Dialect();

   @Override
   public String classToTableName(String className)
   {

      System.out.println("Adding quotes to table from class "+className);
      return addQuotes(super.classToTableName(className));
   }
   
   @Override
   public String tableName(String tableName)
   {
      System.out.println("Adding quotes to table "+tableName);
      return addQuotes(super.tableName(tableName));
   }

   /**
    * Adds opening and closing quotes as provided by the current dialect.
    *
    * @param input
    *          the input to quote
    * @return the qouted input
    */
   private static String addQuotes(String input)
   {
      return new StringBuffer().append(_dialect.openQuote())
                         .append(input)
                         .append(_dialect.closeQuote()).toString();
   }
}

private static Dialect _dialect = Dialect.getDialect();

   <bean id="hibernateProperties" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertiesFactoryBean">
      <property name="properties">
         <props>
            ...
            <prop key="hibernate.dialect">com.mdpframework.dataaccess.hibernate.MySQLInnoDBUTF8Dialect</prop>
            ...
         </props>
      </property>
   </bean>

   <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean" autowire-candidate="true"  depends-on="hibernateDataSource">
      <property name="dataSource" ref="hibernateDataSource" />
      <property name="hibernateProperties" ref="hibernateProperties" />
      <property name="namingStrategy" ref="namingStrategy"/>
      <property name="configurationClass"><value>org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration</value></property>
      <property name="configLocation"><value>classpath:hibernate.cfg.xml</value></property>
   </bean>

   <bean id="namingStrategy" class="com.movilitas.mdpframework.dataaccess.hibernate.DefaultQuotedNamingStrategy"/>

package com.mdpframework.dataaccess.hibernate;

import org.hibernate.cfg.DefaultNamingStrategy;

public class DefaultQuotedNamingStrategy extends DefaultNamingStrategy
{

   @Override
   public String classToTableName(String className)
   {
      return addQuotes(super.classToTableName(className));
   }
   
   @Override
   public String tableName(String tableName)
   {
      return addQuotes(super.tableName(tableName));
   }

   /**
    * Adds backticks before and after the name.
    *
    * @param input
    *          the input to quote
    * @return the quoted input
    */
   private static String addQuotes(String input)
   {
      return new StringBuffer().append('`')
                         .append(input)
                         .append('`').toString();
   }
}