Hibernate version:
hibernate 3.2.6.ga
hibernate-annotations 3.3.0.ga
hibernate-commons-annotations 3.3.0.ga


I have a class X with many Y
(a pretty simple one-to-many mapping).

I'll have more complex cases in the real world, but I'd like to tackle that one first.

The class Y has a property z with the possible values: "IMPORTANT", "MAYBE", "IDONTCARE"

I'd like to have (a bit Rails:ActiveRecord-like) methods like:

List<Y> getImportantStuff() {...}
List<Y> getAllStuff() {...}
List<Y> getMaybeStuff {...}

with each of those methods being a mapped collection.

I tried to set up the mapping and a filter using:

but it first complained that it should be mapped with
after I set that, I got this error:


Is this thing possible?

Futhermore, if I need to rely on @Filter, is it possible to make it always enabled (since my session is injected through Spring)?

Should I forget about setting this through Hibernate mappings and rely on a DAO and HQL directly ?

Have you tried the @Where annotation? http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/annot ... on-enhance