Limit number of results in JPQL

You can set an offset too using setFirstResult()

em.createNamedQuery("Entity.list")
  .setFirstResult(startPosition)
  .setMaxResults(length);

You can try like this giving 10 results to be fetched explicitly.

entityManager.createQuery(JPQL_QUERY)
             .setParameter(arg0, arg1)
             .setMaxResults(10)
             .getResultList();

It will automatically create native query in back-end to retrieve specific number of results, if the backend supports it, and otherwise do the limit in memory after getting all results.