I have a Project class that has a Set of userstories called userStories12many. I'm having troubles trying to get the project that has a certain userstory in its set getComponent(int userStoryID) I think im on the right track but i dont know what i did wrong public Projects getComponent(int userStoryID) { Session session = SessionFactoryHelper.getSessionFactory() .getCurrentSession(); session.beginTransaction(); List<Projects> compo = session.createQuery("select p " + "from Projects as p inner join fetch p.userStories12many as u " + "where u.storyId='" + userStoryID + "'").list(); session.getTransaction().commit(); return compo.get(0); }