HI,

I am new to hibernate. I have a scenario where i would like to use multiple criteria's. I have a map where i will be popping up the elements and try to AND them / OR them. So, is their a better way than using criteria because when we use criteria we need to give it a session. But, i should not give any session to it and get the criteria in a separate class to give it a session. I thought detached criteria's might be helpfull but couldn't figure out.

Thanks in advance.

Well, one approach might just be to populate a POJO with pertinent data provided as input. Then, just pass the POJO with its properties loaded along through the app. When it gets to your Hibernate layer, use that POJO to create a Hibernate Example Criteria Query.

Here's a great tutorial on using the HibernateCriteria API with Example objects:

http://www.hiberbook.com/HiberBookWeb/learn.jsp?tutorial=09howtousethecriteriaapi