Hello

I am getting a LazyInitializationException and would appreciate some guidance as to how I can work around this.

I have the following structure:

Group class
- collection of Users
- Attributes
There is a many to many releationship between User and Group and I am using lazy loading to avoid having to load users until its necessary.

I am also exposing operations that return these objects as a web service. As part of the web service, these object get serialized and I get a LazyInitializationException. I dont always want to get the User information. Is there a way that I can serialize these objects and not these exceptions?

How are other people addressing this type of problem?

Thanks

I think it's better if you use your own pojo in web service instead of using the pojo from hibernate