Hello everyone this might be a very basic question, but I couldn't figure out and need some help.

Lets take an OrderEntry System.
Tables are Orders, OrderDetails, Products, Categories, Manufacturers, Customers

Order class has OrderDetails collection and all my collections are lazyly loaded and we dont have to discuss it here.

Class Hierarchy
OrderDetail has Order, Product
Product has Category, Manufacturer(for simplicity lets assume product to category is one to one)
Manufacturer has X, Y and Z

So when I load OrderDetail object it loads Order, Product, Category, Manufacturer, X, Y and Z.

I am only interested in OrderDetail Object and maybe Product and Order but definetly not the contained classes in Product and Order.

Is this a normal behaviour? If not what am I doing wrong? How can I fix this. I am using criteria API to retrieve OrderDetail Object.

Thanks Gurus
Binnyg

Which version of Hibernate are you using? If it's Hibernate3.x, then you can make the objects in the Product and Order to be lazy, by specifying lazy=true on these associations. Look at the Hibernate3.0 dtd at:

http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd

for this lazy attribute.