Hibernate version 3.0

I have two tables A and B. Table A is the parent and table B the child. My hibernate mapping file uses a many-to-one with outer-join="true". When I get a list from the A class, I get all of the data in A even if there is no row in B. This works great until I impose an order by clause. This causes the left outer join to turn into an inner join. Now I get only the rows in A that have a row in B. Not good. Hibernate should not change the join when an order by is used. If I was matching a column on the B table, then an inner join would be appropriate.

Is there a way around this?

Are you trying this with a Criteria?

If so, the short answer is no. See here: http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.ph ... highlight=

Somewhere on this forum, I recall reading that this might change in 3.1, but I can't find the reference to that right now.