FetchMode.JOIN in Criteria not working as expected -------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-997 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-997 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Components: core Affects Versions: 3.0.5, 3.1 beta 2 Environment: WinXP, JDK 1.4.2, Oracle Reporter: Vladimir Kamba Original Estimate: 20m Remaining Estimate: 20m I'm trying to create Criteria select and I need to outer join the aliased Class. Criteria crit = getSession().createCriteria(Transaction.class).createAlias("accountFrom","accountFrom").setFetchMode("accountFrom", FetchMode.JOIN); I expect the code above to generate left outer join statement but it doesn't. I tried to inspect the Hibernate source and found the potential bug location: Hibernate 3.0.5 - org.hibernate.loader.criteria.CriteriaLoader - method getJoinType Hibernate 3.1.b3 - org.hibernate.loader.criteria.CriteriaJoinWalker - method getJoinType the first condition in the protected getJoinType(...) method is if ( translator.isJoin(path) ) { return JoinFragment.INNER_JOIN; } else { ... WHY??? Evaluation of my criteria fulfils the condition above and returns the JoinFragment.INNER_JOIN what results in INNER join statement. I recomend to change the first condition in the getJoinType method to: if ( translator.isJoin(path) ) { FetchMode fm = translator.getRootCriteria().getFetchMode(path); if ( fm==FetchMode.JOIN ) { return getJoinType(nullable, currentDepth); } else { return -1; } } else ... Maybe I'm wrong and there is some other way to fix my criteria. If so then please let me know. Thanks Vladimir