Hi,

I would like to know if hibernate supports the following funcionality:

Imagine that I have a databse with a great number of tables and relations between them. When I load an object from a table, that object will be created in memory, and then, will be created an object for each associated table, and so on....

This way, a simple query may return MUCH information that may be unessecery. Is there any method of controlling the 'depth' of the created objects?

Thanks,
Joao Rangel

Hibernate supports several strategies, some in metadata, some at runtime. Proxies, lazy loading...