Hibernate version: 2.14
Can someone explain me the exact relation between eager fetching and outer joins when using criteria queries?
It seems that eager fetching of objects is impossible when using inner joins and I don't understand why?
Hibernate in action says that it is not possible to use eager fetching with aliases. I agree that using an alias imply an inner join but I don't know why it forbids to fill properties of the corresponding object instead of using a proxy.
I have also seen in hibernate code that using a subcriteria on a property creates an alias on this property (in CiteriaaImpl.java). Does it mean that it is impossible to use eager fetching and createCriteria on the same property ?

Thank you
Eric