I have a User class and a Group class. Each one has a many to many association to the other through the following Sets:

public class User{

@ManyToMany
private Set<Group> groups;

and

public class Group{

@ManyToMany(mappedBy="groups")
private Set<User> users;

I've also created a subclass of User called NamedUser that adds fields for firstName and lastName. Now, I've found that if I add some NamedUser objects to a Group and issue the query "SELECT u FROM User u, INNER JOIN groups g WHERE g.name = ?" what gets returned is a list of NamedUser objects, but if I access the Users assigned to a Group via the lazy initialized collection Group.getUsers(), it contains entities of the superclass User. Is there any way that I can have the collection objects be initialized to the type of the correct subclass (i.e. NamedUser instead of User)?

Thanks in advance for your help.

I found this http://www.hibernate.org/280.html. I am trying to access the methods through reflection in a JSP page, and it seems like proxies are my problem. Does anyone know how to leave lazy fetching enabled but disable proxies? Particulary with annotations?