Hibernate: Criteria vs. HQL

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Published on 2008-10-13T12:47:33Z Indexed on 2010/05/29 10:32 UTC
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What are the pros and cons of using Criteria or HQL? The Criteria API is a nice object-oriented way to express queries in Hibernate, but sometimes Criteria Queries are more difficult to understand/build than HQL.

When do you use Criteria and when HQL? What do you prefer in which use cases? Or is it just a matter of taste?

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