Hibernate version: 3.1.1

I want to control in different cases whether Hibernate lazy loads a List member of an object or not. So can't do it in mapping.xml because it only configures it for the object and not for different transactions.

Can I map two similar objects to the same table. Both have same field properties and both have a List representing child objects. The only difference would be 1 object has the List set to Not lazy load, and the other has the List set to lazy load.

Doing it this way I could control the lazy loading by deciding which Object to use.

Would this work? I have not found another way to customize lazy loading at each different transaction level. This could be a cool workaround.

Comments please?

You could simply reference the list member in the transactions that need them, and leave them lazy. Or, are you trying to deal with all your POJOs in a generic way?