So in all the documentation and examples, i've seen that you can do a find with a hql clause
"from myClass" and it gets all inherited objects as well (very cool).
But lets say i have two classes
myClass and
myInherited extends myClass

And in a particlar case i ONLY want objects of type myClass and NO objects of type myInherited. I have searched through the internet, the documentation and a couple of books, but i can't see how to do that.

I'm sure i'm missing something painfully obvious here :(

Are you using table-per-class hierarchy or joined-subclasses?

If you know for sure you only want the subclass, specify it: com.blah.MyInherited.class
in your finds, queries, criteria

I'm sorry, I misread - you're looking for only the parent and not the child.
If you're using table-per-class-hierarchy then you must have a discriminator field. You can use an Expression in a Criteria to test against the discriminator field.

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/refer ... yhql-where?