I have an object which has a couple collections of objects which contain collections (and so on). In all my mapping files, lazy="true", because I don't want to load all these collections all the time. But, in one situation, I need access to all the data. Is there any way I can override the lazy setting for the session instead of just the criteria?

Thanks,
Jamie

Nope... (as far as I know)

You have to instuct nHibernate to do this using the ICriteria.SetFetchMode or IQuery ( ".. from a inner join fetch a.collection" ).

dado