Hello,

I have an entity that owns several many-to-one properties.

When I do a xxxDAO.load(id) on it, it seems to do a select for all target tables.
I would like to load foreign entities just when I need to do.
But I can't find any "lazy=true" option in the many-to-one tag...

Secondly, if I declare a many-to-one property in my hbm, initialization fails : "repeated columns".
I have to remove the FK_id simple property in my hbm to fix this.
But I really need sometimes to get just the FK_id and not the entire foreign entity.

Did I misunderstand something about the use of "many-to-one" ?

Your many-to-one entity should then be a proxy.
See class proxy or class lazy in entities hbm.

Thank you!

I added "lazy=true" in the class tag of the parent entity and lazy initialization for many-to-one properties works fine now!

But it didn't fix my second problem.

Log says something like "repeated column, you should add insert=false ; update=false".

I added that in the simple property "FK_id" and initialization doesn't fail anymore.

I'm quite happy but I'm not completely satisfied because as I don't have a lot of experience in Hibernate I can't guess what will be the consequences of "insert=false" and "update=false" in my program.

Does it affect parent entity's saveOrUpdate in a way?

Thanks again for your clue