Hi all.

We are making one web application with Struts and Hibernate. When I load an element (with some relations inside it) I have one object with some relations mapped inside Set objects (java.util.Set interface and net.sf.hibernate.collection.Set implementation). Supose that we have those objects inside Set lazy (so they will be loaded if they are readed).
Ok. We want to transfer our persistent objects to Front (Web) objects (to make layer separation), maybe Struts Forms. Is there a way to convert my persistent Set (from Hibernate) to java.util.Set (with no reference to hibernate Session) without making load of all objects? I mean, when I do something inside my persistent object, hibernate start to load them and I only want one new java.util.Set without making lazy loading.

Any idea? Thanks in advance.

I'm not clear why you would need to convert it. If you do not want the objects lazy loaded, dont call those methods in your objects to cause lazy loading! If you want an object or collection loaded in advance, call Hibernate.initialize() on that object or collection.

Hi again.

If I convert from hibernate objects to actionform objects, maybe with BeanUtils.copyProperties(), Set objects are translated from hibernate to actionForms but they are still conected to Hibernate. If I, for example, set log to debug with Struts (which means that struts sends a message to logger with the contents of the ActionStruts) then hibernate starts to make queries. I mean, I dont ask for those objects because I dont want to read them (this is the reason I make the Set lazy). For that reason I'm asking if is there a way to separate objects from hibernate from objects of the view side to make separation between layers without making hibernate to call all lazy objects.

Any idea? Thanks a lot