How to limit a collection in an Object's property in hibernate?

Question

I have two entities: item, and bid, each item have many bids for it, so bid is a collection property of item.

in the page that show an item, I just want to show the firs

Answer 1

For plain SQL, do the following:

Select B.*
From item I, bid B,
Where T.itemId = B.itemId
Limit 10;

Same can be done in case you are using hibernate, using criteria API or HQL HQL example:

Query query = session.createQuery("from MyTable");
query.setMaxResults(10);

Criteria example: 
session.createCriteria(Abc.class)
                    .addOrder(Order.desc("id"))
                    .setMaxResults(10)
                    .list();