If I want to retreive all of something, like all the users in the system, is there anyway to do this except for using a query?

we have something like this in the dao layer - it uses an hql query:

public List findAll() {
log.debug("finding all Division instances");
try {
getSession().beginTransaction();
String queryString = "from Division";
Query queryObject = getSession().createQuery(queryString);
return queryObject.list();
} catch (RuntimeException re) {
log.error("find all failed", re);
throw re;
}
}

so, you HAVE to use a query here?

1 . - Criteria criteria = session.createCriteria(User.class)
criteria.list();

2 . - Query query = session.createQuery("from user");
query.list();


I think chapter 14 (not too sure) is all about querying, maybe you should skip to that one.

Not to sure about the code either, I just wrote it from the top of my head.

cheers

if you have a users table, I'm not sure how you would get the data without a query to the database, if the data is in your database the answer is yes, it could be cached if you have already retrieved it but you will still have to ask/query hibernate for it, which may or may not cause a query to your database

moving to dublin,

I just found that , but thanks anway. I gave you a credit too, cuz you got less than I do.