In this section, you will learn to use "between" i.e.one of the built-in hibernate criterions. Restriction class provides built-in criterion via static factory methods. One important method of the Restriction class is between : which is used to apply a

Hibernate's Built-in criterion: Between (using with Date)

In this section, you will learn to use "between" i.e.one of the built-in hibernate criterions. Restriction  class  provides built-in criterion via static factory methods. One important  method of the Restriction class is between : which is used to apply a "between" constraint to the named property
In this tutorial, "Between" is used with the date object. It takes three parameters e.g. between("property_name",startDate,endDate)
Here is the code of the class using "between" with the Date class :

package roseindia.tutorial.hibernate; import org.hibernate.*; import org.hibernate.criterion.*; import org.hibernate.cfg.*; import java.text.DateFormat; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.*; /**  * @author Deepak Kumar  *   * http://www.roseindia.net Hibernate Criteria Query Example  *    */public class HibernateCriteriaQueryBetweenDate {   public static void main(String[] args) {   Session session = null;   try {   // This step will read hibernate.cfg.xml and prepare hibernate for   // use   SessionFactory sessionFactory = new Configuration().configure()   .buildSessionFactory();   session = sessionFactory.openSession();   //Criteria Query Example   Criteria crit = session.createCriteria(Insurance.class);   DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");   Date startDate =  (Date)format.parse("2005-01-01 00:00:00");   Date endDate =  (Date)format.parse("2005-03-03 00:00:00");   crit.add(Expression.between ("investementDate", new Date(startDate.getTime()),  new Date(endDate.getTime()))); // Between date condition   crit.setMaxResults(5); // Restricts the max rows to 5   List insurances = crit.list();   for(Iterator it = insurances.iterator();it.hasNext();){   Insurance insurance = (Insurance) it.next();   System.out.println(" ID: " + insurance.getLngInsuranceId());   System.out.println(" Name: " + insurance.getInsuranceName());   System.out.println(" Amount: " + insurance.getInvestementAmount());   System.out.println(" Date: " + insurance.getInvestementDate());      }   session.close();   } catch (Exception e) {   System.out.println(e.getMessage());   } finally {   }     } }

Output:

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.hibernate.cfg.Environment).log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.Hibernate: select this_.ID as ID0_0_, this_.insurance_name as insurance2_0_0_, this_.invested_amount as invested3_0_0_,  this_.investement_date as investem4_0_0_ from insurance this_ where this_.investement_date between ? and ? limit ? ID: 1 Name: Car Insurance Amount: 1000 Date: 2005-01-05 00:00:00.0 ID: 4 Name: Car Insurance Amount: 2500 Date: 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 ID: 7 Name: Travel Insurance Amount: 2000 Date: 2005-02-02 00:00:00.0 ID: 8 Name: Travel Insurance Amount: 600 Date: 2005-03-03 00:00:00.0