Hi,

I have one master table and 5 child tables defined with a foreign key constraint from the master.

Ordinairly, if I load 'n' records from the master, hibernate loads all the associated children also. How can I control this behavior to load only the parent records without loading the children? I need both functionality (shallow load and deep load).

Any help is much appreciated..

Hibernate version:
2.1

read about lazy loading and fetch strategies (docs and hibernate in action)