Hibernate: How to get result from query with multiple classes

Question

If my query contains one class, like:

query = session.createQuery(\"select u from User as u\");
queryResult = query.list();

then I iterate

Answer 1

When you select a single entity, query.list() will return a List of Object containing your entities.

When you select multiple entities, query.list() will return a List of Object[]. Each element of the array reresents a separate entity.

Read more here: http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.3/reference/en/html/queryhql.html#queryhql-select