Add public DetachedCriteria createAlias(String associationPath, String alias) method to the DetachedCriteria ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-1619 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1619 Project: Hibernate3 Issue Type: Improvement Components: query-criteria Affects Versions: 3.1.3 Reporter: Aleksei Valikov Assignee: Diego Pires Plentz Priority: Minor Original Estimate: 10 minutes Remaining Estimate: 10 minutes Hibernate 3.1.2 introduced the possibility to specify join type for aliases in criteria. There was added the following method: public Criteria createAlias(String associationPath, String alias, int joinType) throws HibernateException; Unfortunatelly, such a method was not added to the DetachedCriteria. Resolution is trivial. Please add: public DetachedCriteria createAlias(String associationPath, String alias, int joinType) throws HibernateException { criteria.createAlias(associationPath, alias, joinType); return this; } to the DetachedCriteria class.