Hi,

Is there anyway I can do filtered associations in Hibernate. For example, if I have Department and Employee classes, can I have a one-to-many bi-directional association where the an instance of Department will contain only EMployee instances matching a certain criteria.

Ta
Abu Mariam

There is a Filter API in Hibernate.

You can create a criteria in your mapping file (in your case, on the association between Department and Employees). You then enable in your session and every query that you issue will be filtered.

You can even pass parameters to your filter.

Read documentation file at: http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... te-filters

Good luck.

or the where attribute in the collection mapping

Thanks very much. That was exactly what I wanted.