After performing the query, i got the results of type List which I call rList.
According to the top example in page 61 of the Hibernate2 Reference Documentation(pdf),
I did the following

Iterator it = rlist.iterator();
Object[] row = it.next();

...
but it.next() returns an object. The error from Eclipse shows:
type mismatch:cannot convert object to object[]

Any thoughts?

Thank you very much

I didn't get any reply from your gurus.
So I want to rephrase my question.
I know that HQL supports agrregate functions like count(), sum(), my problem is after executing the query, I actully want to retrieve the value of count()...
Just as I mentioned in the above question, since the count(..) is not in my persistant class, neither in a physical table, using the scalar properties mentioned in the doc. above, I couldn't even get the object[].

Pls. help if you have such experience. I think it should be very common try to retrieve the value from your queries, right?

Thks.

Iterator it = rlist.iterator();
Object[] row = (Object[])it.next();

(Basic Java: An array is also an Object)
- Jeevan (G1)

g1friend,
Thank you so much. I got it right!