Is there a more efficient way of making pagination in Hibernate than executing select and count queries?

Question

Usually pagination queries look like this. Is there a better way instead of making two almost equal methods, one of which executing \"select *...\" and the other one \"count

Answer 1

At this Hibernate wiki page:

https://www.hibernate.org/314.html

I present a complete pagination solution; in particular, the total number of elements is computed by scrolling to the end of the resultset, which is supported by now by several JDBC drivers. This avoids the second "count" query.