Hibernate version: 3.05

If I create a new object with lazy associations, persist it, then try to reference the associations in the same session I find that they are null. The only solution I know of is either close the session and continue processing with a new session, or evict the object and load it again in the same session.

Is there another way to handle this situation ?

I had a similar problem with lazy collection, with OsCache and EhCache.

Check cache that used Hibernate and i resolved with flush this cache and session.
I used Session.flush() and OsCache flush operations.

It appears that the proper way to handle this is to refresh the object that was persisted after you save it. session.refresh(object)

This is better than evict and refetch because it can be done within the same transaction.