I believe that outer join fetches only get go to a depth of one. That is if class A has a set of class B and class B has a set of type C then I can get all of A's set B using an outer join but I won't be able to get all the B's sets C using an outer join. is this correct? Is there a way to get everything in one outer join?

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Ah yes, this is correct in the case of a collection. If you can turn things around and start from the Cs, you will be able to do it.


I think its really a bit harder to implement multi-level outer-join fetching of collections. (In the case of a bag, impossible.)

Max wants this. We may have to look into it at some stage. (Add it to JIRA.)

First post, read the manual a couple of times, built all the examples and feel comfortable using hibernate. The problem is why I try to apply it to my project.

It's a music collection, so there are 3 main objects - song, aritst, and album.

Each object has a collection of the other two.

Before I switched to hibernate, I would manually populate the objects based on a specifed depth.

Now, hibernate does it based on my mappings (many-to-many) but I don't understand how or if it's adjustable or if it's going to eat resources once I fully populate the database and seach for just 1 song.