I think Hibernate should be made as easy to use as possible.......

Therefore I would like to suggest the following syntax for more complicated queries.....

Imagine you want to query local area that belong to a country, independet of the "wide area". But country is only references via a wide area and there is no direct link between local area and a country.

You can not add wide area as a restriction as the problem ist, that you want all wide areas....and you only need them to get to the county.....


Criteria c = session.createCriteria(LocalArea.class);
c.add(Restrictions.eq("wideArea", *));
c.add(Restrictions.eq("country", country));

-localArea
-wideArea
- country

What do you think?

I think such a syntax would definitely be cool! You also would not need to create additional tables for the linkage....

you can place enhancement requests here http://opensource.atlassian.com/project ... board.jspa

but I don't get what you're trying to suggest as an improvement. You can already use Criteria like that.

Have you got an example? Are you sure?

I'll respond in the other thread. I read this thread before the other one and just assumed those were attributes