Hibernate Native SQL Query retrieving entities and collections

Question

This is my situation, I have two basic POJO\'s which I\'ve given a simple hibernate mapping :

Person
  - PersonId
  - Name
  - Books

Book
  - Code
  - Descr         


        

Answer 1

AFAIK, it is not possible to get a "merged" entity back from a SQL query. You will get back only an object array. What I did in this situation was that I created a new constructor for my merged entity that took an array of objects as it's argument. Then I constructed that manually.