How do you select a column using Hibernate?

Question

I would like to select a single column instead of a whole object, using Hibernate. So far I have this:

 List firstname = null;

 firstname = ge         


        

Answer 1

If you need to query 2 or more columns and get the values from the query, this is the way to do it:

....
crit.setProjection(Projections.property("firstname"));
crit.setProjection(Projections.property("lastname"));

List result = crit.list();

...

for (Iterator it = result.iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
    Object[] myResult = (Object[]) it.next();
    String firstname = (String) myResult[0];
    String lastname = (String) myResult[1];

    ....
}