Is there a way of checking if a classes' collections have been loaded or not when lazy loading is set? I need to do this check outisde the session as we have functions that need to work differenctly depending on whethter these collection have been loaded or not and currently they are throwing exceptions

Hello,
Try to use Hibernate.isInitilized(Object)

[url]file:///D:/var/java-refs/hibernate-2.0.2/doc/api/net/sf/hibernate/Hibernate.html#isInitialized(java.lang.Object)[/url]

Ops ... sorry by the url ...

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/api/net/sf/hibernate/Hibernate.html#isInitialized(java.lang.Object)

:-)

This works well when session is closed, but Im curious that the result is true everytime when there is an active session attached!? Is there any way to check if collection is lazy when session on collection is not null?