Sorry if i ask something that may be obvious.

I have two entity with a jointable cause there is a many to many association.
Example:
Teachers --> JOIN-TABLE <-- Students.

I have put inside the Teachers entity the @ManyToMany association.
Everthing works fine, cause i 'm able to get the students list for a choose teacher.

The problem comes when i do some queries using the Criteria Api.
I'd like for example to get 10 female teachers. The problem is that automatically hibernate execute the join with the Students table, so the result set contains duplicated entity. Then if I use the Criteria.DISTINCT_ROOT_ENTITY i remove the duplicate, but i get less than 10 results.

How can i solve the problem??

Thanks ;)

I found where the problem is.
The students list in the teacher entity il loaded eagerly.

The problem is that i'm not able to load it lazily, cause when i access it the session is already close. I'musing annotations and Spring+Struts.
Is there a way to open it again or to keep it open??

Thanks for any help

I have found how to solve the problem: