Hello I have an entity that has a 1-to-many relationship with another entity.

I have define the map as
<set name="ws" outer-join="true">
<key property-ref="a" column="I_ID"/>
<one-to-many class="W" />
</set>

it works fine except that it always runs as a single join query. I'd like to run it as a single left outer join.

Am I missing something?

The other thing is that I'm running it from a criteria:
c = session.createCriteria(MyEntity.class);

Does that have anything to do it?

Your help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

The reason it was ignoring my left outer join is because I was creating an alias in my criteria.

In order to enable the outer join I did the following:
criteria.createAlias(alias, alias, CriteriaSpecification.LEFT_JOIN);

Now it is good.

Thanks