This should be pretty east to do with a criteria query.
Just create an example class and set the property you're looking for to "publisher". Then, send that Example, which implements the Hibernate Criterion interface, to a findByCriterion method in a DAO.
It might look something like this:
Code:
package com.examscam.criteria;
import java.util.List;
import org.hibernate.Criteria;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.criterion.Example;
import com.examscam.HibernateUtil;
import com.examscam.model.User;
public class FindVerifiedUsers {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    User user = new User();
    user.setVerified(false);
    Example example = Example.create(user);
    Session session = HibernateUtil.beginTransaction();
    Criteria criteria = session.createCriteria(User.class);
    criteria.add(example);
    List results = criteria.list();
    HibernateUtil.commitTransaction();
    for (int i = 0; i<results.size(); i++) {
      System.out.println(results.get(i).toString());
    }
  }
}
From the Hibernate3 Tutorial on using the Hibernate Criteria API and JPA AnnotationsThis will work well with a findByExample or findByCriterion method in a Data Access Object:
Code:
package com.examscam.criteria;
import java.util.List;import org.hibernate.*;
import org.hibernate.criterion.*; import com.examscam.model.User;
import com.examscam.HibernateUtil;
public class UserHelper {
public static List findByCriterion(Criterion... criterion){
   Session session = HibernateUtil.getSession();
   Criteria criteria=session.createCriteria(User.class);
   for (Criterion crit : criterion) {
      criteria.add(crit);
   }
   return criteria.list();
 }
}
Code:
public List<T> findByExample(T exampleInstance, 
                          String[] excludeProperty) {
  Criteria crit = HibernateUtil.getSession()
                   .createCriteria(persistentClass);
  Example example = Example.create(exampleInstance);
  for (int i=0; i< excludeProperty.length; i++) {
    example.excludeProperty(excludeProperty[i]);
  }
  crit.add(example);
  return crit.list();
}
Creating Advanced Data Access Objects with Hibernate: Tutorial and Examples