HI, I'm into rich clients, plus I love hibernate. So I had some investigations how to build a good architecture. Currently I have some remote services that use Eager loading to get my data to the client. I need some extra mappings when I dont want to eager load for performance reasons as I cant change that on the fly (which I think I understand why). I read Gavins opinion on remote lazy loading, and to some extend I can understand what he means. It was actually Jackrabbits remote Session that brought me to the following questions: What would it take to biuld a client/server layer on top of hibernate to build a remote SessionFactory/EMF, that actually has a server side instance that handles all the work. So I could have true hibernate power in rich clients. I think its not trivial as there seem to be many dependencies, but I would like to hear if someone thought about such a thing already.

it's a long time that nobody reply this, please see http://code.google.com/p/rich-hibernate-lazy/