Hibernate 3.2.1

I'm rolling through a collection that has been lazy loaded, calling equals() on all the objects to try and find one, and I'm getting inconsistent results.

For some reason, the contents of the collection are mixed between non-proxied and proxied objects. This makes my equals() calls fail when they are called on a proxied object.

It seems that the objects that remain proxies vary, and sometimes no objects are proxied. I have no idea why I get this inconsistent behavior, however. What would cause a collection to be populated by such a mixture?

To follow up, it looks like the problem is I had a collection, with a size greater than my fetch size. I was also pulling objects that belonged to the collection through another relationship, which ended up as proxies. The collection then pulled those proxies from the session cache when it got to them.

So, lesson is, if you're getting objects from two different sources in the same transaction, you might end up with proxy conflicts.

Hibernate should be able to manage both proxied and non-proxied objects transparently from wherever they came from. There sould be somethig else.