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Lazy Initialization is working well for us. My question is: How do I detect whether a collection has been initialized? I have tried several different ways to check, but it seems that any attempt to discover the information results in the colllection being initialized.

This is causing a bit of an issue when I attempt to perform additional "cleanup" work to prepare objects for garbage-collection. We have a standard operation named "shutdown()". This operation is responsible for the task of "shutting down" its children and then shutting down itself. If a collection of "children" has not been initialized, previously, I don't want to initialize it in the shutdown operation.

Does anyone have any suggestions on this?

Thanks in advance,
Gerry

try Hibernate.isInitialized()
see :http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/api/net/sf/hibernate/Hibernate.html#isInitialized(java.lang.Object)[/url]

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Gerry