So I'm doing the following:


Where Instrument.class is an interface which is implemented by a @MappedSuperclass abstract class which is itself extended by two @Entity classes.

So now if I do a search against this criteria will it simply return all objects of type Instrument.class from all tables that are created by its subclasses?

I guess that's what I see happening and am wondering if this is proper use of Hibernate or if I'm relying on "undefined" properties of Hibernate.

Thanks.

Hibernate supports polymorphic querying on any object that ends up being mapped.

for giggles, try doing a select on Object.class and it will load up every entity in every table in your db.

Thank you.