What are some of the real world example where JPA2 Criteria API is more preferable?

Question

I have taken a look at JPA 2.0 Criteria API, but I found it to be too cumbersome unlike Hibernate Criteria. Is there any good reason to use JPA 2.0 Criteria API rather than

Answer 1

JPA 2 Criteria can be used in statically typed form if you generate the entity metamodel. It is more verbose than JPQL, but is statically typed and supports dynamic query construction directly.

The benefits of a statically typed query language is that you can catch more errors at compile time and IDE features like autocomplete can be used as well.