Hi,

I would like to know if it is possible to activate lazy loading for a many-to-one association only, instead of setting lazy="true" for the entire entity.
If lazy="true" is set for the entity (that appears in the many-to-one), when executing a Hibernate query, all fields of this entity will automatically be populated, if the many-to-one relationship is defined in the hbm files.
In my application, I sometimes want the association data to be loaded, but in other cases, I don't need that extra data.

Is there any way this can be done?

Kind regards,
Johan

Isn't the attribute applicable for relationships. If I remember correctly, when you sent lazy true, and turn the SQL trace on, you'll see that the first SQL get's the columns from the parent. Once you try accessing the collection, it'll fire another query to get the child objects. Not sure if I answered your question.

-Anand

1- declare lazy = true on the class (not on the many-to-one declaration)
2- code a default constructor in your pojo