I am confused at the exact scenario. I guess the scenario could be one of the following

i) Scenario 1 – You are showing the list of ToDos on some page and by default the ToDos are coming in the order of HLM and you want in HML order. In that case you must be holding ToDos in some collection and that collection will sort in the order of natural sorting. In order to override that your ToDo class has to implement Comparable interface and you have to write compareTo method accordingly. It is a good idea to implement equals and hashcode also for ToDo class.
One more thing, the collection you must use for this should be TreeSet or any collection implementing SortedSet interface. I guess currently the results of your HQL query is being stored in Arraylist or something

ii)Scenario 2 – Another scenario could be you are showing priorities in the dropdown or somewhere and your browser is shoing priorites in wrong order. In that case try Priority should implement comparable interface or your view layer should re-order

Please not that neither of this scenario is related to my original blog post where you have set for a class. In this case you don’t have Set you have many to one relationship. One ToDo has only one priority. My blog post could be relevant had you had multiple priorities for one ToDo and you want to order them in some specific pattern.

Hope this makes it clear. Let me know if you have any questions

priority relationship
<code>
<set
name="todoLogs"
lazy="true"
inverse="true"
cascade="all"
>
<key>
<column name="PR_ID"/>
</key>
<one-to-many
class=[todo class name]
/>
</set>
</code>
actual ordering in priority (alphabetically):
"High","Low","Medium"
required order:
"High","Medium","Low"

todo relationship

priority relationship

actual ordering in priority (alphabetically):
“High”,”Low”,”Medium”

required order:
“High”,”Medium”,”Low”

but here is the thing i can say:

something called “todo” in my application has a many-to-one relation with “priority”

so todo relation is:

and the priority hbm file contains:

the HQL query (i am not allowed to use SQL) uses orderby

The issue is priority is sorted Alphabetically, however
this is not correct for “High”,”Medium”,”Low” (since “L” comes before “M”)
someone suggested me to use lowercase for “l” but i consider that a Hack.

I am using a Many-to-one relationship where
i want to custom sort the child, wht do i do ?