diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/provider/PersistenceProvider.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/provider/PersistenceProvider.java
index 1c9eb844b..ac181bbf4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/provider/PersistenceProvider.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/provider/PersistenceProvider.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ package org.springframework.data.jpa.provider;
 import static org.springframework.data.jpa.provider.JpaClassUtils.*;
 import static org.springframework.data.jpa.provider.PersistenceProvider.Constants.*;
 
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Collections;
@@ -43,7 +44,9 @@ import org.hibernate.proxy.HibernateProxy;
 import org.springframework.data.util.CloseableIterator;
 import org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationManager;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
+import org.springframework.util.ClassUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.ConcurrentReferenceHashMap;
+import org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils;
 
 /**
  * Enumeration representing persistence providers to be used.
@@ -401,6 +404,11 @@ public enum PersistenceProvider implements QueryExtractor,ProxyIdAccessor {
 	 */
 	private static class HibernateScrollableResultsIterator implements CloseableIterator<Object> {
 
+		private static final Method READ_ONLY_METHOD = ClassUtils.getMethod(org.hibernate.Query.class, "setReadOnly",
+				boolean.class);
+		private static final Method SCROLL_METHOD = ClassUtils.getMethod(READ_ONLY_METHOD.getReturnType(), "scroll",
+				ScrollMode.class);
+
 		private final ScrollableResults scrollableResults;
 
 		/**
@@ -411,9 +419,18 @@ public enum PersistenceProvider implements QueryExtractor,ProxyIdAccessor {
 		public HibernateScrollableResultsIterator(Query jpaQuery) {
 
 			org.hibernate.Query query = jpaQuery.unwrap(org.hibernate.Query.class);
+			boolean isReadOnly = TransactionSynchronizationManager.isCurrentTransactionReadOnly();
 
-			this.scrollableResults = query.setReadOnly(TransactionSynchronizationManager.isCurrentTransactionReadOnly())
-					.scroll(ScrollMode.FORWARD_ONLY);
+			if (READ_ONLY_METHOD.getReturnType().equals(org.hibernate.Query.class)) {
+
+				this.scrollableResults = query.setReadOnly(isReadOnly).scroll(ScrollMode.FORWARD_ONLY);
+
+			} else {
+
+				Object intermediate = ReflectionUtils.invokeMethod(READ_ONLY_METHOD, jpaQuery, isReadOnly);
+				this.scrollableResults = (ScrollableResults) ReflectionUtils.invokeMethod(SCROLL_METHOD, intermediate,
+						ScrollMode.FORWARD_ONLY);
+			}
 		}
 
 		/*
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/QueryUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/QueryUtils.java
index c748caa5d..f67a2ba39 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/QueryUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/QueryUtils.java
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ public abstract class QueryUtils {
 	private static final Pattern ALIAS_MATCH;
 	private static final Pattern COUNT_MATCH;
 
+	private static final Pattern NO_DIGITS = Pattern.compile("\\D+");
 	private static final String IDENTIFIER = "[\\p{Lu}\\P{InBASIC_LATIN}\\p{Alnum}._$]+";
 	private static final String IDENTIFIER_GROUP = String.format("(%s)", IDENTIFIER);
 
@@ -386,7 +387,11 @@ public abstract class QueryUtils {
 	public static boolean hasNamedParameter(Query query) {
 
 		for (Parameter<?> parameter : query.getParameters()) {
-			if (parameter.getName() != null) {
+
+			String name = parameter.getName();
+
+			// Hibernate 3 specific hack as it returns the index as String for the name.
+			if (name != null && NO_DIGITS.matcher(name).find()) {
 				return true;
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/StringQueryParameterBinder.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/StringQueryParameterBinder.java
index b792d311a..0a27b6e81 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/StringQueryParameterBinder.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/StringQueryParameterBinder.java
@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ public class StringQueryParameterBinder extends ParameterBinder {
 	 */
 	private ParameterBinding getBindingFor(Query jpaQuery, int position, Parameter methodParameter) {
 
+		if (hasNamedParameter(jpaQuery)) {
+			return query.getBindingFor(methodParameter.getName());
+		}
+
 		try {
 
 			jpaQuery.getParameter(position);
@@ -78,15 +82,11 @@ public class StringQueryParameterBinder extends ParameterBinder {
 
 		} catch (IllegalArgumentException o_O) {
 
-			if (hasNamedParameter(jpaQuery)) {
-				return query.getBindingFor(methodParameter.getName());
-			}
+			// We should actually reject parameters unavailable, but as EclipseLink doesn't implement ….getParameter(int) for
+			// native queries correctly we need to fall back to an indexed parameter
+			// @see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=427892
+
+			return new ParameterBinding(position);
 		}
-
-		// We should actually reject parameters unavailable, but as EclipseLink doesn't implement ….getParameter(int) for
-		// native queries correctly we need to fall back to an indexed parameter
-		// @see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=427892
-
-		return new ParameterBinding(position);
 	}
 }