Criteria creativeCriteria = getSession().createCriteria(PcmCreative.class);
    for(Entry<String,Object> mapEntry : propValMap.entrySet()){
        if(mapEntry.getValue() == null){
            creativeCriteria.add(Restrictions.isNull(mapEntry.getKey()));
            //creativeCriteria.add(Restrictions.disjunction().add(Restrictions.isNull(mapEntry.getKey())).add(Restrictions.eq(mapEntry.getKey(),mapEntry.getValue())));
        }else{
            creativeCriteria.add(Restrictions.eq(mapEntry.getKey(),mapEntry.getValue()));
        }
    }
    creativeCriteria.createAlias("campaign", "c").add(Restrictions.eq("c.campaignNumber", campaignNumber));
    creativeCriteria.setProjection(Projections.rowCount());
    return (Integer)creativeCriteria.uniqueResult();

String strDate = DateUtils.convertDateToString((Date)     fieldValue,CmtConstants.CMTDATE_MYSQL_COMPARISION_FORMAT);
//fieldValue = DateUtils.convertStringToDate(strDate,CmtConstants.CMTDATE_MYSQL_COMPARISION_FORMAT);

private java.sql.Date getSQLDate(Object dateObj) {

    SimpleDateFormat sdf = null;
    try {

        sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd");
        java.util.Date utilDate = sdf.parse((String) dateObj);
        if (utilDate == null) {
            return null;
        } else {
            return new java.sql.Date(utilDate.getTime());
        }

    } catch (ParseException parseEx) {
       }

}