Hi Folks, I could have sworn there was a way to use a partially populated dao object to query the database. eg...

Product p = new Product();
p.setAvailable(true);

session.find(p);

.. it returns all objects where available = true in the database.

Am I crazy.. do I have to use a criteria query for this.. or is there a way to do what I have above?

Thanks

Cat cat = new Cat();
cat.setSex('F');
cat.setColor(Color.BLACK);
List results = session.createCriteria(Cat.class)
.add( Example.create(cat) )
.list();

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... a-examples