I am looking into performance issues for hibernate application. One of the Parent class has many child classes which are lazy loaded.
For testing the performance, i thought of debugging and started in debug mode but to my suprise, even thought the child classes are lazy loaded , i still see data retrieved from DB to parent and size of the child is non zero.

Is this the expected behavior or do i need to tweek anything to make it work?

Thanks,
Santhosh

During debugging, the IDE is triggering the Proxy initialization since it has to show you how the entities look like in the Debug Inspector.
Logging all SQL statementsis a much better approach in your case.