Hibernate Criteria

In this section we are giving many tutorials and example of Hibernate Criteria API. These examples will enable you to understand the Criteria API.

Hibernate Criteria

Hibernate Criteria - Learn the Hibernate Criteria API and master the Hibernate framework

The Hibernate Criteria query API is used to selectively find the entity from the  persistence store (database). Here you will learn about the different ways of using the Criteria Query.

The Hibernate Criteria API is created in object orient way and Hibernate translate it into the actual SQL. It is the object orient and elegant alternative to the HQL for querying the objects. It provides many options to the developers.

The Hibernate Criteria query allows you to selectively fetch the data from database.

Creating a Criteria instance

First of we will learn how to create the an instance of Criteria?

The interface org.hibernate.Criteria is used to create the query and it repents the query against a particular persistent class. The Session object is used get the instance of Criteria.

Following code shows how you can get the instance of Criteria from the Session object:

Criteria criteria= session.createCriteria(Employee.class);
List employees = criteria.list();

Here are the example us of Criteria query:

Tutorials

  1. Hibernate 4.2 Tutorial
  2. Hibernate Overview
  3. Hibernate Architecture
  4. Setup Hibernate Environment
  5. Hibernate Configuration files
  6. Hibernate Example Step by Step in Eclipse
  7. Hibernate save Example - Rose India Hibernate 4 tutorials
  8. Hibernate Load Example
  9. Hibernate save or update method example
  10. Hibernate Session.delete() Example
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