I'm trying the following JPQL and it fails misserably:

Query query = em.createQuery("SELECT u FROM User u WHERE 'admin' MEMBER OF u.roles");
List users = query.query.getResultList();

I get the following exception:

ERROR [main] PARSER.error(454) | <AST>:0:0: unexpected end of subtree
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: unexpected end of subtree [SELECT u FROM com.online.data.User u WHERE 'admin' MEMBER OF u.roles] ERROR [main] PARSER.error(454) | <AST>:0:0: expecting "from", found '<ASTNULL>'
...
...
Caused by: org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: unexpected end of subtree [SELECT u FROM com.online.data.User u WHERE 'admin' MEMBER OF u.roles]

I have Spring 3.0.1.RELEASE, Hibernate 3.5.1-Final and maven to glue dependencies.

User class:

@Entity
public class User {
  @Id
  @Column(name = "USER_ID")
  @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
  private long id;
  @Column(unique = true, nullable = false)
  private String username;

  private boolean enabled;

  @ElementCollection
  private Set<String> roles = new HashSet<String>();

...
}

Spring configuration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
 xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
 xsi:schemaLocation="
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-context-3.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx 
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop 
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd">

 <!-- Reading annotation driven configuration -->
 <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />

 <bean class="org.springframework.dao.annotation.PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor" />
 <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor" />

 <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
  <property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}" />
  <property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}" />
  <property name="username" value="${jdbc.username}" />
  <property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}" />
  <property name="maxActive" value="100" />
  <property name="maxWait" value="1000" />
  <property name="poolPreparedStatements" value="true" />
  <property name="defaultAutoCommit" value="true" />
 </bean>

 <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
  <property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
  <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
 </bean>

 <bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
  <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
  <property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
   <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
    <property name="showSql" value="true" />
    <property name="databasePlatform" value="${hibernate.dialect}" />
   </bean>
  </property>
  <property name="loadTimeWeaver">
   <bean class="org.springframework.instrument.classloading.InstrumentationLoadTimeWeaver" />
  </property>
  <property name="jpaProperties">
   <props>
    <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</prop>
    <prop key="hibernate.current_session_context_class">thread</prop>
    <prop key="hibernate.cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.NoCacheProvider</prop>
    <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
    <prop key="hibernate.format_sql">false</prop>
    <prop key="hibernate.show_comments">true</prop>
   </props>
  </property>
  <property name="persistenceUnitName" value="punit" />
 </bean>

 <bean id="JpaTemplate" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTemplate">
  <property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
 </bean>



</beans>

Persistence.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence">

 <persistence-unit name="punit" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL" />

</persistence>

pom.xml maven dependencies.

  <dependency>
   <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
   <artifactId>hibernate</artifactId>
   <version>${hibernate.version}</version>
   <type>pom</type>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
   <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
   <version>${hibernate.version}</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
   <artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId>
   <version>${hibernate.version}</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
   <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
   <version>${hibernate.version}</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
   <artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
   <version>1.2.2</version>
   <type>jar</type>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
   <version>${spring.version}</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
   <version>${spring.version}</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>
   <version>${spring.version}</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-acl</artifactId>
   <version>${spring.version}</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>javax.annotation</groupId>
   <artifactId>jsr250-api</artifactId>
   <version>1.0</version>
  </dependency>
 <properties>
  <!-- Application settings -->
  <spring.version>3.0.1.RELEASE</spring.version>
  <hibernate.version>3.5.1-Final</hibernate.version>

Im running a unit test to check the configuration and I am able to run other JPQL queries the only ones that I am unable to run are the IS EMPTY, MEMBER OF conditions.

The complete unit test is as follows:

TestIntegration

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations =  { "/spring/dataLayer.xml"})
@Transactional
@TransactionConfiguration
public class TestUserDaoImplIntegration {
  @PersistenceContext
  private EntityManager em;

  @Test
  public void shouldTest() throws Exception {
    try {
//WORKS
Query query = em.createQuery("SELECT u FROM User u WHERE 'admin' in elements(u.roles)"); 
List users = query.query.getResultList();
//DOES NOT WORK
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
      throw e;
    }
    try {
Query query = em.createQuery("SELECT u FROM User u WHERE 'admin' MEMBER OF u.roles"); 
List users = query.query.getResultList();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
      throw e;
    }
  }
}