I have am Employee entity and a Location entity. When retrieving a list of Employees, I would like to also retrieve
each employee's current location.
For various reasons, I do not want to persist the location as part of the Employee entity.
Instead, I would like to lookup each Employee's location when retrieving a list of employees.
I would like for each employee's locationName to be part of the Employee object returned by
the Criteria query.

I thought to add a transient property to the Employee entity(see below) and set it when
retrieving a list of Employee, but that results in an error org.hibernate.QueryException: could not resolve property: locationName of: com.csc.apps.contacts.model.Employee

Any ideas?


@Entity
public class Employee
{
@Id
private String employeeNumber;

private int locationId;

@Transient
private String locationName;
}

@Entity
public class Location
{
@ID
private int locationId;
private String locationName;
}