The document discusses the Criteria API for querying data in Hibernate. It describes features like restrictions, projections, grouping, match modes, and using detached criteria. When querying without an open session, a detached criteria can be instantiated and later attached to a session for execution by calling getExecutableCriteria() and passing the session.

1. Professional Open Source™
Criteria API
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2. Professional Open Source™
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3. Using Restrictions
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4. Getting Unique Result
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For Ignoring case
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6. Professional Open Source™
Same as
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7. Match modes
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 If you want to search using wildcards, you can use the MatchMode
class
The following MatchMode values are available:
• START: Matches the start of the string with the pattern
• END: Matches the end of the string with the pattern
• ANYWHERE: Matches the pattern anywhere in the string
• EXACT: Matches the complete pattern in the string
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8. Projections
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Same as
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Same as
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Same as
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11. Grouping
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12. Using Detached Criteria
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 If you don’t have an open session, you can instantiate a detached
criteria by using the DetachedCriteria. forClass()
 method and later attach it to a session for execution.
 When you have a session to run the query, you call
 getExecutableCriteria() and pass the session as a method
argument. The getExecutableCriteria()
 method returns an executable instance of criteria:
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