I have query like this

select user from User user left join fetch user.Group.roles where user.userId = :pk

When there are no associations to roles in the database from group to roles , I end up getting a LazyInitializationException . I specified that the roles should be lazy loaded in the Group mapping file . If I uses lazy loading with fetch .. does this mean there needs to be an association at the database level , in my case a Group must have a role ? Any way around this problem ?

Thanks

mapping please

Thanks alot , I posted the mappings @the following post

http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.ph ... 37#2197237