dear hibernate experts,

i have a User class with a list of UserImages. sometimes i want the UserImages loaded non-lazy (to avoid n+1 selects) and sometimes i want them loaded lazy. can you please point me to the right part of the documentation? i cannot find anything. perhaps i am a google idiot. thank you.

adam

Make sure the relationship is lazy and use a query that include the fetch to tell hibernate to not lazy load it.

Lazy: from User;
Non-lasy: select u from User u left join fetch u.userImages;

See http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/reference/en/html/performance.html#performance-fetching for more information.