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Found a really great reference with examples of Hibernate association mappings using annotations. http://tadtech.blogspot.com/2007/09/hibernate-association-mappings-in.html

Using the LIKE condition with a “%” sign for pattern matching in a HQL query with named parameters required some tweaking. This did not work: String query = "from user u where u.name like %:name%" getHibernateTemplate().findByNamedParam(query, "name", str); It resulted in a org.hibernate.QueryException: unexpected char: ‘%’ error. Next I tried using single quotes: String query [...]

Spring Framework provides the convenient form:options tag to render a list of <option> tags for a form <select>. Here is an example: <form:select id="status" path="status" cssClass="text large" cssErrorClass="text large error" > <form:options items="${statusList}" itemValue="id" itemLabel="label"></form:options> </form:select> It does iteratate through statusList and will output each item as an option with the value statusList[i].id and the [...]