Say I have an object User which has an IList (mapped/lazy loaded by nHibernate) Friends. If I have a remotable object that has a method that returns this User object:
a- I assume on calling this method that the User object being returned will not have the Friends list populated. Am I correct?
b- If I access (on the client) User.Friends[0] how can I make sure the remotable object is called so that nHibernate can start loading the object I'm trying to access?

Thank you,
Sammy

user class is marshall byvalue or marshallbyref (remote object) ?
marshallbyref will load the friends as lazy load.
marshallbyvalue will not load.

if i am wrong, someone correct me.

i havent tried yet, but joew should be right. The marshal by ref will do everything automatically.

however, it is not considered good practise to create lots of remote objects. Are you sure that is how you wish to work?

I would suggest fetching everything that you need before you go to your client (this is sometimes faster then going through all your layers to populate the friends list)

or

create your own ISession implementor that will just direct all your calls directly to your real session object, but first go to your server.