When I changed from 3 Alpha to 3 Beta all my code broke because of lLazyInitializationExceptions. I don't use lazy loading (on intention). I do have the same problem as discussed in the thread "Hibernate LazyInitializationException". I load an object, I close the session, then I want to access the attributes and get the exception. Leaving the session open solves this, but I don't want to leave all those sessions dangling around.
Then I tried to disable it by setting:
class name="de.stephanwiesner.hibernate.basis.Book" table="BOOKS"
lazy="false"
This did not help either.

So, is there a way to generally disable lazy loading in Hibernate 3 Beta?

This is one of the changes in H3 that were made because 99% of our users gets bitten by the direct opposite - that their application loads in their whole db and performance is out the window.

I don't think we have a "global switch", so you'll have to go say lazy="false" on all your relatios (but then again you can't have that big a model since you can live with lazy loading disabled or ?)

Okay, thanks. My code works now, when I set lazy=true on all classes and subclasses. You are right, it is just a tiny demo application.

you do mean lazy=false right ? ,)