I want to use FetchMode.JOIN to get around lazy loading. I have an application which displays a list of students. Once a student is selected, I need to provide details for this student. This is when I get the lazy loading errors. The students are structured like this.

The student object contains a list of enrollments objects. The enrollment object contains a course object. The course object contains a list of sessions and a list of homework assignments... etc.

I looked through a number of postings on this forum and it looks like I can get around lazy loading by setting the fetchmode.

Criteria newCriteria = session.createCriteria(Student.class);
newCriteria.setFetchMode("enrollments", FetchMode.JOIN);

This does seem to work but only to the enrollment level. When I try to get to the course object which is within enrollment, it doesn't seem to work. I'm trying to do it like this.

newCriteria.setFetchMode("enrollments.course", FetchMode.JOIN);

How should I get to the course object?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Henry

Could you please post the sample code ( with xml mapping/annotation) and code where are you getting problem.