I have employees which have a many to one relation (foreign key) with addresses (they work on a same address or something).

I create 2 employees on 1 address, and save all 3.

I also have ehcache, and their properties go in there also.

In a new session I do a get on a employee by id. The properties of the employee are found in ehcache, but of the address is in ehcache only the id of the address.

Now hibernate creates a proxy to an address, with this id. Hibernate does not go to ehcache again to see if the (properties of the) address are there. This is what I don't understand.

Thanks.