IS there a way to get fixed length of entries from session.find()
or
the session.iterate() can it be optimized to retrieve a given set a time
for example

session.iterate("some query", int querySize);
when the query size is exausted then it would get the next querySize.

If you use a query object you can do query.setMaxResults and query.setFirstResult to get a subset of the resultset. I'm not sure if it works in all dialects.

Query q = session.createQuery(hqlString);
q.setMaxResults(10);
q.list();

Jenica