I am currently using Hibernate 3.

Currently I have an Item with a mapped joined-sublcass of Gear. What I would like to do is be able to search by Gear only on a Criteria class. After reviewing the documentation:

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... teria.html

I am unable to see how to correctly create a Criteria object for this. Because the mapped type is Itme, when creating a Gear criteria object Hibernate throws an error about an unknown mapping type.

The criteria object is created with the following:

Criteria criteria = HibernateHelper.getSession().createCriteria(Item.class);

where I want to be able to do:

Criteria criteria = HibernateHelper.getSession().createCriteria(Gear.class);

Any help is great, thanks!