Hi All,
I searched the forum, but didn't find this issue solved

I try to serialize my object graph (in order to pass it to the servlet, which is working with POJOs and unaware of Hibernate).
I tried binary and xml serialization, but I'm not completely able to rid off all Hibernate staff (proxy, PersistentCollection,etc.).

Do you know way/tool that allows to convert Hibernate objects into real POJOs? or some working converter for XStream?

(In the worst case, I will implement Externalizabe and will transform by myself, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel..)

Thank you,
Igor Laberov

Why do you want to serialize it? You can initialize all important properties and it it should be fine.
Regards Sebastian

I need to pass my persistent objects as POJOs to the applet ( I mistypes in my previous post) and I don't write marshall method for each class in the domain

I'm using XStream to send pojos from hibernate queries to a client over a socket. I think the only thing you have to worry about is that all your objects are initialized, and are not using lazy-loading.

I ensure that properties/collections are initialized, but now I wonder if the XStream serializer would actually trigger hibernate to initialize lazily-loaded properties/collections when calling getters, or if it uses reflection. I'm not using any special XStream converters, except for a custom date parsing converter which is unrelated.

Is your client aware of Hibernate jars? I'm asking because XStream put Hibernate classes names in the xml (e.g. PersistentBag for collections), and on client end it is not possible to deserialize this xml due to lack of hibernate jars