You may force Hibernate to quote an identifier in the generated SQL by enclosing the table or
column name in backticks in the mapping document. Hibernate will use the correct quotation
style for the SQL Dialect
(usually double quotes, but brackets for SQL
Server and backticks for MySQL).
<class name="LineItem" table="`Line Item`"> <id name="id" column="`Item Id`"/><generator class="assigned"/></id> <property name="itemNumber" column="`Item #`"/> ... </class>