Hibernate: changing case of table name

[David O'Meara]

We have a MySQL schema with a mapping to a user table in another schema, where the local user has SELECT permission on that table

@Entity
@Table(schema = "portal", name = "User_")
@org.hibernate.annotations.Entity(mutable = false)
public class User implements Serializable {

As you can see the declared table name is capitalised, as is the table name itself, as well as the grant statement:

grant select on portal.User_ to tmp@localhost;

However when we view the queries, hibernate is referring to the table as "user_" ie in lowercase.
I got around this by creating a view with that name, but does anyone know why Hibernate is doing this, and a possible solution?

MySQL 5.1, Hibernate 3 and Spring