I would like to be able to programmatically enable/disable lazy loading at a certain table level. Normally, I prefer lazy loading. However, there are certain scenarios where I need to disable it for a Session (or a Transaction or .execute() call if necessary).

Is there a way to do this? If not, what is the recommend method of doing this?

Scenario:
In a certain query, I want to get a list of rows from TableA immediately (i.e. NOT lazily) -- without having to traverse through them, similar to how Hibernate 2 did it.
Later on, I want a different query to lazily get data from TableA and below.

Summary of table relationships:


Hibernate 3.1.3
Java 1.5

You could use fetch joins whenever needed. That would initialize collections without considering any lazy loading settings.


Farzad-