AFAIK uses inner joins by default for implicit joins. Is there a way to tune this behavior to use outer joins instead?

In particular I would like this query to return entities that don't have a particular association when there's a not equal condition, like so:



Because I'll have to generate the HQL at runtime and I cannot use Criteria, I'd like to use implicit joins.

Cheers,
Tim

I have the exact same problem, though It seems the answer is no, this feature does not exist (at least I couldn't find anything)
I resolved the problem by generating explicit outer joins and not using implicit joins for optional relations.