Implementing result paging in hibernate (getting total number of rows)

Question

How do I implement paging in Hibernate? The Query objects has methods called setMaxResults and setFirstResult which are certainly helpful. But where can I get the total numb

Answer 1

I personally think you should handle the paging in the front-end. I know this isn't that efficiënt but at least it would be less error prone.

If you would use the count(*) thing what would happen if records get deleted from the table in between requests for a certain page? Lots of things could go wrong this way.