I've posted a similar question, now, i'd like to ask a theorical question.
Suppose i have a table Organization with orgId (pk) and orgName as it's columns.
I also have a table Employee with empId (pk), empName and fk_orgId (foreign key to Organization).

Organization has 0..* Employees
Employees belons to 1 Organization

Is there a way i can have a method


inside Organization class, even if Organization doesn't map the attribute emps to the database (as it's the employees are the many part of the relation)???

Thanks,
ltcmelo

I think you might be able to implement something like that with a query.
But nevertheless you should simply consider mapping the employees to the organization (with lazy=true so that you don't have any major performance impacts)

I don't want to implement it as a query (as i said before), i'd like just to have the employees of a Organization already mapped to the specfic Organization object (using lazy load or not).

Pleas take a look at

http://forum.hibernate.org/posting.php? ... y&t=931247

where i pointed this problem with a real situation that i'm having (there are some code at this other topic).

Thanks,
ltcmelo