Hibernate version:3.1.2 cr2

Hi,
I just want to ask that does Query by Example supports associations or not. e.g. If i have bi-dircetional one to many relationship in Department and Employee domain objects and i want to use query by example for Employee object and then set DepartmentModel in it with department id given then will i be returned list of all object of Employee belonging to that department?. I tried but query by example did not included in where clause (My employee models all properties was null and inside it Department model was set to a new Department object having its id defined.)
I think it should have worked because it is quite comon case. Because in DB u have department_id as foriegn key in Employee Table so if i was not using relationships or association then it would be quite easy to set the departmentId property of employee model and then search it using query by example. Any help is very much appreciated in this regard.

Best Regards,
Shoaib Akhtar

Reply Plz

There was a post yesterday someone saying Query-By-Example doesnt work with collection. So your guess may be correct.

And this is the link (http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=959586)