Say, I have a parent-child type of table relationship, say, Cat and Kitten.
How will I define the XML mapping or the class definition in such a way
that when I load the Cat info from the database, it will load only Kittens with, like, red noses?

Like this,

Cat, "lovella", might have twenty kittens... I am only interested to get kittens with red noses... something like that.

The usual, parent-child relationship will surely load all the kittens belonged to a certain cat right?.
how will i change my xml definition to meet my needs?
(i want to get rid of other kittens that's why im planning to permanently get red-nosed kittens only).

cheers.

I guess you should use Cirterial instead of createNamedQuery(),the code seems like as below:

List cats=session.createCriteria(Cat.class).add(Expresssion.eq("name","lovella")).list();
Cat cat=cats.get(0);
Collection col=session.filter(cat.kitten(),"where this.nose=?","red",Hibernate.String);

Maybe you intently use named query other than criteria,then i have to get out from here becuase i have no experiment about named query in hibernate,sorry for my poor technique,it's believed someone will clear your confuse soon.

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Hi!.
Dont mind the named query. I am only interested on how I obtain red-nosed kittens. And seems like the 3rd line of your code make sense. I will try that one and I think that will work!.

Shei-shei!!.