I was wondering if Hibernate is planning to include type safe query's in Hibernate? Or, if it’s already in Hibernate (couldn’t find in though)?

for example, this is a type safe query implemented in Ebean:
List<Customer> customers =
Ebean.find(Customer.class)
.where().like(“name”, “Rob%”)
.orderBy(“name desc”)
.findList();

a paper about is can be found here:
http://www.ekabanov.net/kabanov-raudjarv-pppj08.pdf

Does anyone have more info about this?

thnx