Can a component be feteched by HQL?

wei725 · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:36 pm **Posts:** 78

I currently don't have a test environment for this question. So, I ask it instead. I have a component Address in an entity Account.

Code:

@Embeddable
public class Address implements java.io.Serializable {
...
}

@Entity
@Table(name = "account")
public class Account implements java.io.Serializable {
...
   private Address address;
...
}

Can I retrieve an address with a HQL something like the following

Code:

select account.address from Account account where ...

instead of

Code:

from Account account where ...

and retrieve the Address from the result?

zzantozz · **Joined:** Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:46 am **Posts:** 37

Google turns this up as its top result:
http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/ ... components

Cameron McKenzie · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:34 pm

Why not just load the object and use the getter, so account.getAddresses(). That would be easier and more object oriented!

wei725 · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:36 pm **Posts:** 78

Thanks both.

I thought the approach is more effective and it still deals with an object.