I'm getting this exception anytime I try to load a table that has an associated transient table. The strange thing is I only see this if I load a single entry, if I load all I don't get the error.

getHibernateTemplate().get(entityClass, id) FAILS

getHibernateTemplate().find(String.format("from %s", entityClass.getName() WORKS (it loads all entries but they are all correct and complete..

The class I'm querying is...

@Entity
public class MetaDatabaseGroup extends DatabaseGroup {
@ManyToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
@JoinTable(name = "DATABASE_GROUP_MAP")
private Set<DatabaseGroup> databaseGroups;
...

The transient class is...

@Entity
public class StaticDatabaseGroup extends DatabaseGroup {
@ElementCollection( fetch = FetchType.EAGER )
@CollectionTable( name = "DB_GROUP_ELEMENT_MAP", joinColumns = @JoinColumn(name="DATABASE_GROUP_ID"))
@javax.persistence.Column( name="ElEMENT")
private Set<Long> externalIds;
...

So why might I be getting the lazy init error? Its not clear.

-Robert