Hi,
A question on lazy loading. I have three class:

Class A has one-to-many association with Class B;
cascade="save-update" inverse="false" lazy="true"
Class B is defined as a List in Class A;
Class B has one-to-many association with Class C;
cascade="save-update" inverse="false" lazy="true"
Class C is defined as a List in Class B;


So when I retrieve Class A, Class B will be retrieve also;
But Class C is not;

1) Does it mean I have to manually retrieve C then ?
2) If the chain is longer (for example, Class C has one2many with Class D), does it mean that I should not use lazy loading ?

sorry too new to this.

If you're using lazy initialization like you show in the example, you can do a find() in either class A or B and the list will come back as uninitialized. You just need to do Hibernate.initialize() to inflate those Lists. I would always recommend using lazy initialization for the performance gain.

HTH,
Lou

If I use Spring framework, does it mean that I do not need to take care of this ?