I know that this has been addressed before but I can't find a satisfying solution.

I have a model using Hibernate, DAO and DTO's. I'm using servlets to communicate with an applet.

I want to serialize the DTO's from the servlet to the applet and back. But the DTO's is using Hibernate annotations and I can't get this to work.

Isn't it possible to just serialize the annotated dto's? How can I be sure that my dto's are fully populated with data. Can't use lazy because the applet is on the client.