JPA/Hibernate maximum number of joins?

Question

Is there a limit to the number of joins permitted in a JPA/Hibernate query?

Since Hibernate doesn\'t automatically join, I have to explicitly specify the joins in my

Answer 1

I've once hit the MySQL 5.0 61 table limit with Hibernate:

ERROR 1116 (HY000): Too many tables; MySQL can only use 61 tables in a join