Hi,
I'm using Hibernate 3.1. I have the following scenario:
I have a parent object encapsulating a List of child objects inside it. There are two tables in the database (SYBASE), which stores this identity mapping with the help of an Id column. When trying to retrieve the parent and print the child, it gives the following exception:

org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: cannot access loading collection

If I load the parent and the child(explicitly, by executing an SQL), then it works fine. In the mapping file I have tried both lazy="false" and "true". Doesn't make a difference !

I'm completely new to hibernate. Could any one please help me out with this?
regards,
Saurabh

In general if lazy=”false” then everything should work just fine. You may see the same exception because child object in turn might have some lazy association and that may create appearance of lazy=”false” not working.

If you need all the data anyway than it make sense to use lazy=”false” all the time, otherwise you need to implement “open-session-in-view” or “Session-per_request strategy.
http://www.hibernate.org/43.html