what an odd question.. you've placed the java stack trace in the MySQL forum, usually the stack trace is only useful if you have the source code.
you are using hibernate3 as your data abstraction layer
yet you havent' rpovided the SQL or the table design
..its kinda hard to figure out what is going wrong, short of having crystal balls to divine the error from the aura(s)
if I were you Od want to prove to myself the SQL is valid and actaullay should and does do "something". ie prove that the requet tot he SQL engine is OK
after that I'd want to start delving into the Java stuff to find out whay the proven SQL isn't working