Suppose we have the following hierarchical model:

class Person {

public void initDependencies() {
}

}

class Notary extends Person {

@Fetch(SUBSELECT)
Set functions=new HashSet();

public void initDependencies() {
this.functions.size();
}

[...]

// getter and setter

}

When performing a polymorphic search on Person (sub classes Notary elements will also be gotten from DB) like the HQL:

String hql = "from Person p where name like 'smi%'"

If i want to initialize the functions of the Notary, I do the following:

Query query = session.createQuery(hql);
List<Person> results = query.list();
for(Person person:results) {
person.initDependencies();
}

This works fine but I would expect that a subselect query is run to fetch the functions of all the selected Notary (Person). Instead I got one single select request for each Notary (Person) :-(

It seems that a polymorphic query doesn't apply the Fetching startegy configured on the model?

Bruno