Is there a way to return a map of selected fields in hibernate?

E.g.:

select type, name, version from devices where id = :deviceId

Would return:

Map<String,String> device;

So I could do:

String type = device.get("type");

Without having to map it into a class called Device.

?

There is an example in the documentation about this, though I have never used it myself. See the last example (select new map) in section http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3. ... hql-select