Hi, I am using Hibernate 3.x

From documentation I understood that if I explicitly use property (column)
names then I have to use them ALL! Is that correct?
So there is no way to fetch only a few properties of a class (table), is there?


[ Note: HQL does not help in my situation because I cannot do left join
on unmapped fields, I really need to use native SQL. ]

Thanks,
Nik

you can do <return-scalar> and then just map the scalar values in your java code.