Hibernate and Unexpected end of Subtree exception

I'm a newbie to Hibernate.

I have an Item POJO which contains a Set<String> consisting of labels. The labels are contained on another Database table from the Item table, so I do a join to populate the pojo.

I'm trying to run a simple example query from the book "Java Persistance with Hibernate" where I query from Item item where 'hello' member of item.labels. Only, for some reason I am getting a

 `org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: unexpected end of subtree[from /*qualified class path*/.Item item where 'hello' member of item.labels]`

What might be causing this issue?

Here are my POJOs:

public class Item
       private int uuid;
       private Set<String>labels = new HashSet<String>();

       @Id
       public int getUuid(){
          return uuid; 
       }

       @CollectionOfElements
       @JoinTable(name="labels", joinColumns=@JoinColumn(name="uuid"))
       @Column(name="label")
       public Set<String> getLabels(){
            return labels;
       }
 }