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

here's the way pagination is done in hibernate

Query q = sess.createQuery("from DomesticCat cat");
q.setFirstResult(20);
q.setMaxResults(10);
List cats = q.list();

you can get more info from hibernate docs at : http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/reference/en-US/html_single/#objectstate-querying-executing-pagination 10.4.1.5 and 10.4.1.6 section give you more flexbile options.

BR,
~A