Chapter 15. Criteria Queries
Hibernate features an intuitive, extensible criteria query API.
15.1. Creating a Criteria
instance
The interface
org.hibernate.Criteria
represents a query against a particular persistent class. The Session
is a factory for Criteria
instances.
Criteria crit = sess.createCriteria(Cat.class); crit.setMaxResults(50); List cats = crit.list();