Hibernate version: 3.X

Hi,

Why is not possible to override annotation lazy-load configuration at the high hibernate level of configuration.

The probleme is sometime in old coded application we need to mock some very complexe object without business (like domains values ;)).

For this the more quick approch is to serialize/unserialize object. For this we can use xstream but xstream can't serialize proxy created by CGLIB :

cf : http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/XSTR-359

So it will be interesting to be able to disable lazy-load feature for improve facility of test. I read the documentation without see any information on it.
In hibernate 2 if my memory is good it was possible. Why this features was removed in hibernate 3.X

Thank you.

I believe till 2.0 you need to explicitly mention the lazy attribute in associations if you want them to be lazy but 3.0 onwards everything is lazy by default and you need to override the default behavior by setting lazy="false" in required associations.

No idea if it is possible to set the lazy settings globally.