Hibernate has its own sql features that is known as hibernate query language. for retriving data from database using hibernate.
String sql_query = "from employee"//user table name which is in database.
Query query = session.createQuery(sql_query);
//for fetch we need iterator
Iterator it=query.iterator();
while(it.hasNext())
{
s=(employee) it.next();
System.out.println("Id :"+s.getId()+"FirstName"+s.getFirstName+"LastName"+s.getLastName);
}
for fetch we need Iterator for that define and import package.