How does Hibernate process a join result if the result has not been mapped to a defined class? For instance if my user table/mapping includes columns a b c, and my books table/mapping includes columns a d e, my join may look like the following:

select user.a, b, d, e from user, books where user.a = "xyz" and user.a = books.a;

I am assuming the answer is no, if so how can this situation be handled?

select user.a, b, books.d, books.e from user, books where user.a = "xyz" and user.a = books.a

or
select user,book from user u, book b where u.a = "xyz" and u.a = b.a

you'll get Object[]

Okay, what's in Object[]?

Is there documentation on this specific topic that I can reference?

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/en/html/


select user,book from user u, book b where u.a = "xyz" and u.a = b.a
you'll get a list of object[]
list.get(0) = 1st result row
object[0] = user (you must cast it into user)
object[1] = book (you must cast it into book)

Excellent!

Thanks!!