我有一个Web应用程序，该应用程序具有搜索表单，并且HQL是即时生成的。此外，用户可以单击列标题以根据需要对项目进行排序。一些列从非常深的结构中获取其他数据。

例如，我有这个HQL，它可以完美地工作：

SELECT s FROM Application s
    LEFT JOIN s.product AS product
    LEFT JOIN product.originCountry AS origin
WHERE s.nr = ? ORDER BY origin.name ASC

但是这一失败惨败：

SELECT s FROM Application s
    LEFT JOIN s.product AS product
    LEFT JOIN product.producer AS producer
    LEFT JOIN producer.address AS address
    LEFT JOIN address.country AS country
WHERE s.nr = ? ORDER BY country.name ASC

有人可以指出，我要去哪里错了。不支持这种深层语法吗？

hibernate版本是3.2.1。

抱歉，忘记了堆栈跟踪：

2012-04-04 18:59:42,198 ERROR [foo.impl.ServiceImpl] java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.hibernate.hql.ast.HqlSqlWalker.createFromJoinElement(HqlSqlWalker.java:312)
at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.joinElement(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:3275)
at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.fromElement(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:3067)
at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.fromElementList(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:2945)
at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.fromClause(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:688)
at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.query(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:544)
at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.selectStatement(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:281)
at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.statement(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:229)
at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.analyze(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:228)
at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.doCompile(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:160)
at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.compile(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:111)
at org.hibernate.engine.query.HQLQueryPlan.<init>(HQLQueryPlan.java:77)
at org.hibernate.engine.query.HQLQueryPlan.<init>(HQLQueryPlan.java:56)
at org.hibernate.engine.query.QueryPlanCache.getHQLQueryPlan(QueryPlanCache.java:72)
at org.hibernate.impl.AbstractSessionImpl.getHQLQueryPlan(AbstractSessionImpl.java:133)
at org.hibernate.impl.AbstractSessionImpl.createQuery(AbstractSessionImpl.java:112)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.createQuery(SessionImpl.java:1623)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor336.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate$CloseSuppressingInvocationHandler.invoke(HibernateTemplate.java:1192)
at $Proxy90.createQuery(Unknown Source)
.....