nested exception is org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: users is not mapped. [from users]

在使用hibernate时，出现了异常：users is not mapped：

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateQueryException: users is not mapped. [from users]; nested exception is org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: users is not mapped. [from users]
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.SessionFactoryUtils.convertHibernateAccessException(SessionFactoryUtils.java:656)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateAccessor.convertHibernateAccessException(HibernateAccessor.java:412)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate.doExecute(HibernateTemplate.java:411)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate.executeWithNativeSession(HibernateTemplate.java:374)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate.find(HibernateTemplate.java:912)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate.find(HibernateTemplate.java:904)
	at com.lwframework.user.dao.impl.UserDAOImpl.findAll(UserDAOImpl.java:31)
	at test.Test.main(Test.java:18)
Caused by: org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: users is not mapped. [from users]
	at org.hibernate.hql.ast.util.SessionFactoryHelper.requireClassPersister(SessionFactoryHelper.java:157)
	at org.hibernate.hql.ast.tree.FromElementFactory.addFromElement(FromElementFactory.java:87)
	at org.hibernate.hql.ast.tree.FromClause.addFromElement(FromClause.java:70)
	at org.hibernate.hql.ast.HqlSqlWalker.createFromElement(HqlSqlWalker.java:265)
	at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.fromElement(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:3049)
	at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.fromElementList(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:2938)
	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:218)
	at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.doCompile(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:158)
	at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.compile(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:109)
	at org.hibernate.engine.query.HQLQueryPlan.<init>(HQLQueryPlan.java:75)
	at org.hibernate.engine.query.HQLQueryPlan.<init>(HQLQueryPlan.java:54)
	at org.hibernate.engine.query.QueryPlanCache.getHQLQueryPlan(QueryPlanCache.java:71)
	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:1583)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate$30.doInHibernate(HibernateTemplate.java:914)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate$30.doInHibernate(HibernateTemplate.java:1)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate.doExecute(HibernateTemplate.java:406)
	... 5 more
Caused by:  users is not mapped.
	... 27 more

数据库中有一个USERS表，用Users类进行映射，User.hbm.xml检查了好几遍，确定无错，代码中查询语句如下：

String hql="from users";

运行时，出现以上错误。

明明已经映射了Users了，为什么还说没有映射到users呢？对照着错误检查了好几遍，突发奇想：users没映射到，那Users呢？在学sql语句时就知道了sql语句中对大小写是不敏感的，虽然这是hql语句，但差别也不会大到哪去吧？不过想归想，我想是试了下，结果居然然成功了，不再报错了！

总结：HQL与SQL语法大体相同，但本质含义却不同：

SQL是对数据库中 的表进行操作，操作的内容是表和字段，对大小写不敏感

HQL是对类及其属性进行操作，操作的内容是表所映射的类及表中字段所映射的属性，HQL可以对SQL中的关键字(如from,select等)大小写不敏感，但是对类名及属性名大小写敏感，必须区分大小写。