I have an object, and I need to make sure that the object is fully loaded. By that I mean that there are no parts of the object that have been lazily not loaded yet.

Currently, I achieve this by walking all the components of the object. This works.

Does Hibernate have a mechanism for doing this automatically to an object? I don't want this to happen to all instances of a persistent class, just to a particular instance.

Thanks

i think does that ...

gtx
curio

Reading about Hibernate.initialize() in the doc and api doc, it appears that initialize loads one level of proxy objects. I am looking for something that initializes the full depth of an object.

By that I mean that if an A contains a collection of B's and each B contains a collection of C's, then I would like to initialize the A such that all the B's and C's are also initialized.

Maybe initialize does do this.

You can write such a thing yourself, making use of ClassMetadata