Hi, I would like to be able to extend the functionality of org.hibernate.Query in two ways: 1. Have a method on Query that returns the result aliases and their position in the resulting object array. I think this information is already available at the QueryImpl level, but just not exposed through the public Query interface. Right now, if you do not use the AliasToMapResultTransformer this information cannot be accessed. 2. Being able to add fetch joins programmatically for a given alias. This is possible through straight hacking of the Hibernate code (I found the cleanest place to add the fetch join was in QueryLoader, but it could be done at the AST level too). I would like to do able to do this without resorting hacking Hibernate directly, but instead through a public API or extension point. Of course I could parse the HQL directly, but that is very ugly. Both of these points are already available in Criteria. Regards, Ali Ibrahim Autofetch: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~aibrahim/autofetch