I have an Event that references Cause which contains a Set of Reason.
I can make a query string allowing a query of Event into the set of reasons by doing a join, but haven't figured out how to make this work using Criteria.

It seems that Criteria.createCriteria( String ) should work, but all of my attempts are failing so I'm obviously not doing it right.

Here's what I though would work:
criteria = session.createCriteria( Event.class );
criteria = criteria.createCriteria( "cause.reasons" );
. . .
Exception thrown says "...could not resolve property: cause.reasons"

Can someone point out the error of my ways? Thanks

criteria = session.createCriteria( Event.class );
criteria = criteria.createCriteria( "cause" );
criteria = criteria.createCriteria( "reasons" );

Get the same exception with this too ... I had tried it earlier
Could it have something to do with how the set is defined in xml?