Here is how I\'m getting my User beans from Database.
session.createCriteria(User.class).list();
That returns all of User records from data
you can try:
Example example = Example.create(cat)
.excludeZeroes() //exclude zero valued properties
.excludeProperty("color") //exclude the property named "color"
.ignoreCase() //perform case insensitive string comparisons
.enableLike(); //use like for string comparisons
List results = session.createCriteria(Cat.class)
.add(example)
.list();
Reference :-