Hi All,
Is there any way I can turn Lazy loading on / off using Hibernate API ?
I have a application which will load all the collections (no lazy loading).But now i have add a findAll method which needs to return the list of parent object only.It does not need to load all dependent objects.How to do this ?
When i load using hibernate it loads all dependent objects also.I dont want to change in the Mapping file.

Thanks,
Vinodh

Leave it as default - lazy.
Then you can set on query / criteria setFetchMode(<association>, FetchMode.EAGER).

Well I cannot the change the exisiting mapping which is mapped with lazy=true. So i would like to do the loading using API .Like Loading using Eager will fecth all dependent objects right , Is there a way i can set some to load lazily too ?
Thanks,
Vinodh

Assuming you are using EJB3.0, why don't you just modify the EJBQL queries (hopefully you are using these).

When you require eager loading use fetch joins, but when that is not needed and lazy loading will be good enough just use standard joins.

Andy