Select clause is used for selection of records from a database. It picks up objects and properties and returns it in a query set.

Here is your query ?

SELECT emp.name, emp.salary, emp.dateOfJoin from Employee emp

This is your select clause, picking the employee details as employee name,salary and date of join from Employee table.

Example:

package net.roseindia.main;

import java.util.*;
import net.roseindia.table.Employee;
import net.roseindia.util.HibernateUtil;
import org.hibernate.Criteria;
import org.hibernate.Query;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.criterion.Restrictions;

public class MainClass {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SessionFactory sessionFactory = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory();
        Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();

        String hql="SELECT emp.name, emp.salary, emp.dateOfJoin from Employee emp";
        Query query=session.createQuery(hql);
        query.setResultTransformer(Criteria.ALIAS_TO_ENTITY_MAP);

        List objectList = query.list();
        Iterator iterator = objectList.iterator();
        System.out.println("Employee Name \t Salary \t Date of Join");
        while(iterator.hasNext()){          
            Map map = (Map)iterator.next();
            System.out.print(map.get("0"));
            System.out.print("\t\t"+map.get("1"));
            System.out.print("\t\t"+map.get("2"));
            System.out.println();
        }


        session.close();
    }
}

Output:

Hibernate: select employee0_.name as col_0_0_, employee0_.salary as col_1_0_, employee0_.date_of_join as col_2_0_ from employee employee0_
Employee Name    Salary      Date of Join
Mandy       20000       2010-03-12 00:00:00.0
Som     20000       1999-06-22 00:00:00.0
Mandy       15000       2003-12-23 00:00:00.0
Roxi        220000      2001-02-03 00:00:00.0