Hey All

Is there any to lazily load an attribute of an object..(not colleciton). Suppose i have an object Image which contains an attribute of type byte array which contains binary data. Is there any way to load this attribute lazily ?

Regards
Kaleel

<class name="..." lazy="true">

See: http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/en/html/mapping.html#mapping-declaration-class

at property level, you can do this with hibernate 3

with H2, check lightweight class on wiki
http://www.hibernate.org/41.html

Thanx a lot folks!!

Hi I'm having problem implementing this to Spring-Hibernate integration... perhaps you could give some specific details or tutorial to this?

I resolve the problem by just following this tutorial:

http://www.jroller.com/comments/kbaum/W ... o#comments

and right implementation:

I solve my problem finally.... after searching through the net the answer lies in:

protected void setUp() throws Exception {
super.setUp();
userDao = (UserDAO) ctx.getBean("userDAO");
accountDao = (AccountDAO) ctx.getBean("accountDAO");

sessionFactory = (SessionFactory) ctx.getBean("sessionFactory");
Session session = SessionFactoryUtils.getSession(sessionFactory, true);
TransactionSynchronizationManager.bindResource(sessionFactory, new SessionHolder(session));
}

protected void tearDown() throws Exception {
super.tearDown();
userDao = null;
accountDao = null;

// unbind and close the session.
SessionHolder holder = (SessionHolder) TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(sessionFactory);
Session s = holder.getSession();
s.flush();
TransactionSynchronizationManager.unbindResource(sessionFactory);
SessionFactoryUtils.closeSessionIfNecessary(s, sessionFactory);
}