What is the “proper” way to cast Hibernate Query.list() to List?

Question

I\'m a newbie with Hibernate, and I\'m writing a simple method to return a list of objects matching a specific filter. List seemed a natural return t

Answer 1

List list = new ArrayList();
Criteria criteria = this.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().createCriteria(Person.class);
for (final Object o : criteria.list()) {
    list.add((Person) o);
}