Hi All,

I use Hibernate3 along with Spring 2.5 and JSF1.2.

I need a way to load all association in my DAO where connection is available.
Either by calling Hibernate api method or by some other means.

Use case.
User logs in and sees different groups. (These groups are lazily loaded and required so)
After clicking on one group, he sees the group members. As I am in GUI layer I do not have connection available and do not want to use Spring support for starting connection in GUI layer. (Group and member are lazily mapped) So I call my DAO again by passing Group object and expect this DAO to load all members into it non-lazily.

How can I do that?

TIA and Best Regards

org.hibernate.Hibernate.initialize()

It takes a uninitialized proxy or collection as a parameter. It must of course be connected to an open session.

Thanks for the answer.

Unfortunately Hibernate.initialise method only works on proxy objects it does not load the collections.

Is there any other way?

-Prasad

Oh... but the documentation says:

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I have never had any use for it, but I have always assumed that it should work if I needed to... Could it be a Hibernate bug?

It works using Hibernate.initialize() method. If you pass entire collection as a parameter to the initialize method.