What will be the easiest method to get the distinct value

for example

'Select distinct region from Organization'


Should I use Criteria api

- Should I use NamedQuery

or Should I use session.CreateSqlQuery().

any help is appreciated,

thanks

I use simple HQL (I usually avoid createSQLQuery)

select distinct cat.name from Cat cat

I did the same thing in my query, if possible can somebody take a look at it http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=969743