29.7. Components

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To add a restriction against a property of an embedded component, the component property name should be prepended to the property name when creating the `Restriction`.
The criteria object should be created on the owning entity, and cannot be created on the component itself.
For example, suppose the `Cat` has a component property `fullName` with sub-properties `firstName` and `lastName`:

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<pre class="prettyprint highlight">`List cats = session.createCriteria(Cat.class)
    .add(Restrictions.eq("fullName.lastName", "Cattington"))
    .list();`</pre>
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Note: this does not apply when querying collections of components, for that see below [Collections](#criteria-collections)

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