I agree. The createFilter can be moved to the Query, so we don't require this to be in the Session interface. I haven't seen many questions about this functionality, so I guess we shouldn't worry to much about this change. Vlad On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 6:02 AM, Steve Ebersole <steve(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > Another method I'd like to drop is Session#createFilter. This is method > is > easy enough to replace with a call to createQuery instead. Longer term I > can also see Stream or DSL support from our persistent collections to > provide the similar capabilities. But for now its just no real benefit > for > the cost of overly-complicating the grammars. > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >