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        <p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>We have the following Entities defined:</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>@Entity<br/>
@Table(name = "table1")<br/>
public class Table1 implements VersionSupport, Persistable&lt;Integer&gt;</p>
{

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    @Basic(optional = false)
    @Column(name = "table1_id", nullable = false)
    private Integer table1Id;


    @Basic(optional = true)
    @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
    @JoinColumn(name = "table2_refid")
    private Table2 table2;
}

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>@Entity<br/>
@Table(name = "table2")<br/>
@Indexed<br/>
public class Table2 implements Persistable&lt;Integer&gt;, Auditable, VersionSupport</p>
{
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    @DocumentId
    @Column(name = "table2_id", nullable = false)
    private Integer table2Id;

    @Field
    @Column(name = "matchcode", nullable = false)
    private String matchcode;
}

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>(shortend of course)</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>If I try to do a HQL-Query like the following, I get a "CROSS JOIN" instead of a "INNER JOIN":</p>


<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>&lt;code&gt;<br/>
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>sb.append("from Table1 where table2.matchcode = :refid");</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>Query query = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().createQuery(sb.toString());<br/>
        query.setInteger("refid", value);</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>        List&lt;Table1&gt; table1List = (List&lt;Table1&gt;) query.list();</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>        return table1List;<br/>
    }<br/>
&lt;/code&gt;</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>HQL then generates me the following sql:</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>&lt;code&gt;<br/>
select ... <br/>
from Table1 t1 CROSS JOIN Table2 t2<br/>
where t1.table2_id = t2.id<br/>
and matchcode = ...<br/>
&lt;/code&gt;</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>instead of <br/>
&lt;code&gt;<br/>
select ... <br/>
from Table1 t1 INNER JOIN Table2 t2 on t1.table2_id = t2.id<br/>
where matchcode = ...<br/>
&lt;/code&gt;<br/>
which I will get if I do a explicit join:</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>&lt;code&gt;<br/>
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>sb.append("from Table1 t1 join t1.table2Id where table2.matchcode = :refid");</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>Query query = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().createQuery(sb.toString());<br/>
        query.setInteger("refid", value);</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>        List&lt;Table1&gt; table1List = (List&lt;Table1&gt;) query.list();</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>        return table1List;<br/>
    }<br/>
&lt;/code&gt;</p>


<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>That happens although documentation tells me in different way:<br/>
<a href="http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/3.6/reference/en-US/html/queryhql.html#queryhql-joins-forms">http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/3.6/reference/en-US/html/queryhql.html#queryhql-joins-forms</a><br/>
&lt;code&gt;<br/>
HQL supports two forms of association joining: implicit and explicit.</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>The queries shown in the previous section all use the explicit form, that is, where the join keyword is explicitly used in the from clause. This is the recommended form.</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>The implicit form does not use the join keyword. Instead, the associations are "dereferenced" using dot-notation. implicit joins can appear in any of the HQL clauses. implicit join result in inner joins in the resulting SQL statement.</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>from Cat as cat where cat.mate.name like '%s%'&lt;/code&gt;</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>Who can help me in this case? I don't want to get ANY CROSS JOIN in my Program. In this case I have mapped my refid as nullable as it has to be filled later on in my program. But at the time I create this object it is nullable as I do not have this Object.</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>Either way -&gt; I turned it to not null and it happened again...</p>
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