HQL Order By Example

UserDetails.java

package com.sdnext.hibernate.tutorial.dto;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.Table;

@Entity
@Table(name="USERS")
public class UserDetails 
{
 @Id
 @Column(name="USER_ID")
 @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.AUTO)
 private int userId;
 
 @Column(name="USER_NAME")
 private String userName;
 
 public int getUserId() {
  return userId;
 }
 public void setUserId(int userId) {
  this.userId = userId;
 }
 public String getUserName() {
  return userName;
 }
 public void setUserName(String userName) {
  this.userName = userName;
 }
}

hibernate.cfg.xml

<!!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
        "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
        "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-configuration> 
 <session-factory> 
  <!-- Database connection settings -->
   <property name="connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property> 
   <property name="connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/hibernateDB</property> 
   <property name="connection.username">root</property> 
   <property name="connection.password">root</property> 

  <!-- JDBC connection pool (use the built-in) -->
   <property name="connection.pool_size">1</property> 

  <!-- SQL dialect -->
   <property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property> 

  <!-- Enable Hibernate's automatic session context management -->
    <property name="current_session_context_class">thread</property> 
  
  <!-- Disable the second-level cache -->
   <property name="cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.NoCacheProvider</property> 

  <!-- Echo all executed SQL to stdout -->
   <property name="show_sql">true</property> 
  
  <!-- Drop and re-create the database schema on startup -->
   <property name="hbm2ddl.auto">update</property> 
    
   <mapping class="com.sdnext.hibernate.tutorial.dto.UserDetails">
  
  </mapping></session-factory> 
 </hibernate-configuration>

HibernateTestDemo.java

package com.sdnext.hibernate.tutorial;

import java.util.Iterator;

import org.hibernate.Query;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration;

import com.sdnext.hibernate.tutorial.dto.UserDetails;

public class HibernateTestDemo {

 /**
  * @param args
  */
 public static void main(String[] args) 
 {
  SessionFactory sessionFactory = new AnnotationConfiguration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
  Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();
  session.beginTransaction();
  
  String SQL_QUERY = "FROM UserDetails user ORDER BY user.userName DESC";
  Query query = session.createQuery(SQL_QUERY);
    
  for(Iterator it=query.iterate();it.hasNext();)
  {
   UserDetails user = (UserDetails)it.next();
   System.out.println("User Name: " + user.getUserName());
   System.out.println("User Id: " + user.getUserId());
  }
  session.getTransaction().commit();
  session.close();
 }
}