Hi

I have this crazy problem.

I'm using Hibernate with Weblogic 8.1. Lazy initialization is turned on. I have a simple bean that has a list of related objects within it.

When I look up an object (using Criterias) and then do an Object.getRelatedObjects() call in my DAO layer, i get the related objects without a hitch. When I do the same thing on my JSP/JPF I get the object but not its related objects. The list of related objects is always returned null.

Is this because of lazy initialization??? I can't understand this behaviour.

Thanks in advance,
Rajiv

You need to initialise the objects which you want to use before the hibernate session is closed, otherwise the object cannot lazily initialise itself because the session is no longer present to provide the information to the object.

Calls such as Hibernate.initialize(...) can be used to force initiailisation of objects which you wish to use outside of a session.