Hibernate version:
3.2.2

Hi,
if I have a table Parent with PK ParentID, and want to get all of its Children (ParentID FK), what is the recommended approach for getting its children?

* Object navigation, something like:

Parent parent = (Parent)session.load(Parent.class, 1);
Set<Child> children = parent.getChildren();

* or through HQL:

session.createQuery("from Children where ParentID = 1").list()

Are there any performance issues with any of the approaches? Or is it simply a matter of taste?

The first seems more elegant, but if I dont need the Parent in the first place, its also one line of code more as well as more fetching from DB.

thanks!

the performance differences would be unnoticable. It's a matter of taste. I like using session.load commands whenever possible. But I have plenty of queries that use hql in order to accomodate additional parameters.