I have a situation where I would like to lazy load a specific column in a table. The reasoning is because the column is a blob. Sometimes when I get Exhibit I only care about it's meta-data, like file size, file name, blahblahblah. I only really want to load the data, because of how big it could be, when the user has specifically asked for it (clinked on a link to download it).

Originally I thought I could just lazy load that specific column, however, my initial testing seems to show that I cant. This seems a bit odd, since the DTD supports lazy="true" for a <property/>

The initial testing I did might have been flawed however, so does anyone know if you can actually do this?

Hi,

I'm facing exactly with the same problem. Anybody any idea about this one?

Thanks.

Here is the winner link:

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... ing-custom

If you experience any problem just let me know.

Best.