greetings,

I have a table with a blob column. A problem has just arisen when I want to get a list of (business) objects from that table. The Blob's are also selected, what causes an overload of data. I would like to select all data from the table except the Blob.
Now off course it's possible to put the blob in another table. Although I'm wandering if this is possible:
I would like to get a list of (business) objects from that table, without selecting the blob column and without using HQL.
The goal is to continue working with my business objects and so let hibernate create it without using HQL.
Is there a way to do this in the mapping file (xml) or by giving extra restrictions in the search criteria (NOT HQL)?

Thanks

I think specifying lazy="true" for that blob property in ur mapping should do ur thing. So the property will be fetched from DB only when the instance variable is first accessed.