This must have been explained before. I have been looking at all the documentation to understand how lazy initialization works - but still have some questions.

For example, if
a cat has a list of kittens
and each kitten has a list of toys

Will calling Hibernate.initialize(cat)
Hibernate.initialize(cat.getKittens())

will it initialize list of toys for each kitten or
do I have to iterate through each kitten and initialize its collections.

Thanks so much. Any pointers or posts on this will help a lot.


Pramod

If the collections on the kittens are lazy then I believe it will NOT initialize them on its own. Just like initializing the cat didn't initialize the kittens.

In the end you can try it yourself, just code it up and then call isInitalized(whateverYouAreChecking).

jepp,

either iterate over kittens and initialize them or if you use criteria query then set FetchMode for them.

-Thomas