JPA one-to-many filtering

Question

We are nesting several entities. However upon retrieving we only want to get those entities which are active.

@Entity
public class System {
  @Id
  @Column(name          


        

Answer 1

There is no JPA way, but you can try Hibernate filetrs: http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.6/reference/en-US/html_single/#objectstate-filters