HQL Hibernate INNER JOIN

Joins can only be used when there is an association between entities. Your Employee entity should not have a field named id_team, of type int, mapped to a column. It should have a ManyToOne association with the Team entity, mapped as a JoinColumn:

@ManyToOne
@JoinColumn(name="ID_TEAM")
private Team team;

Then, the following query will work flawlessly:

select e from Employee e inner join e.team

Which will load all the employees, except those that aren’t associated to any team.

The same goes for all the other fields which are a foreign key to some other table mapped as an entity, of course (id_boss, id_profession).

It’s time for you to read the Hibernate documentation, because you missed an extremely important part of what it is and how it works.

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