Hibernate version: 3.1.0

When querying an entity with a lazy many-to-many collection of entities using FetchMode.JOIN on the collection, Hibernate does a left outer join of the collection association table AND a left outer join of the collection element entity table.

Can Hibernate be persauded do the association table join, BUT NOT the element table join? This would result in a collection that is initialised, but with elements populated from the Session cache (my case), or with proxies (if they're not in the cache).

Regards.
Chris.