Fetching list of single column

[Jayavardhan geepi]

session.createSQLQuery("select empid e from emps").addEntity("e", Emp.class).list()

gives me List<Emp>.
But, If I need List<String> (where each entry is empid) using same query , what should I do? Please help.

[Kunal Lakhani]

If you are aware of Criteria, you can use projections.

[Jayavardhan geepi]

I came across addScalar("empid", Hibernate.String) which works as expected