Case-insensitive search using Hibernate

Question

I\'m using Hibernate for ORM of my Java app to an Oracle database (not that the database vendor matters, we may switch to another database one day), and I want to retrieve objec

Answer 1

For the simple case you describe, look at Restrictions.ilike(), which does a case-insensitive search.

Criteria crit = session.createCriteria(Person.class);
crit.add(Restrictions.ilike('town', '%fran%');
List results = crit.list();