Beginning Hibernate: For Hibernate 5

© Joseph B. Ottinger, Jeff Linwood and Dave Minter 2016

Joseph B. Ottinger, Jeff Linwood and Dave Minter, Beginning Hibernate, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2319-2_10

10. Advanced Queries Using Criteria

Joseph B. Ottinger¹ , Jeff Linwood² and Dave Minter³

(1)Youngsville, North Carolina, USA

(2)Austin, Texas, USA

(3)London, UK

Hibernate provides three different ways to retrieve data. We have already discussed HQL and the use of native SQL queries; now we add criteria.

A criteria query uses a model of the information you’re interested in finding. For example, if you were interested in Customer objects whose first name matched “John,” you’d build a Customer object, set the first name to “John,” and use that model object for the query.

This lets you build nested, structured ...