Hi

I have identified the following behavior and I am wondering if there is any workaround for this:

If we map an attribute which is a List with a <bag> and we initialize such list with an empty ArrayList (or any other List implementation) in the bean's constructor, Hibernate ignores the lazy=“true” attribute of the <bag> and loads all the elements.

Is there a way to make Hibernate replace the pre initialized List with it's lazy list implementation?

Thank you.