Student ->course->book
How to set the level of lazy initialisation. Which mean that it will initialise level to 3. Once i query the student, the hibernate will auto query the course then book. If all the lazy = false. How to do that?

If they're already lazy="false", then aren't they being loaded eagerly already?

Anyway, the property you're looking for is hibernate.max_fetch_depth, listed in table 3.3 of the ref docs.