Hi Every one,

I am learning Hibernate.For this i am following tutorials form different websites.In every tutorial they gave examples for saving data or to update data.I couldn't find any examples for retrieving data(like retrieving a row depending on some condition ) .Now my doubt is,Can't we use hibernate for retrieving data form a table? If we can,how to do that ? what are different operations that we can perform with hibernate ? Can any one please tell me.

Thank q very much,
siri.

Ofcourse we can retrieve data using hibernate.

session.load() method can be used to load a particular entity. It looks for the entity in the session first, and if the entity is not present in the session already, it retrieves it from the underlying database.

Apart from that you can use HQL to query your database. Another option is to use criteria based querying. You can also use native SQL queries to query your underlying database.

For details on how to use HQL, criteria, native SQL with hibernate, you may want to go through the hibernate documentation.

Thanks Sukirtha,
I want another help also.I can't find code examples for this topic any where.Can u please give me some examples or tell me any websites names for Hibernate tutorials with code examples.

Thanks,
siri.

Your first station should be the documentation of hibernate - here a link to the right chapter: http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... te-loading