Hello, how are you? I believe what I am asking should be quick and possible to do, as I am sure I've done it before, I just cant find how I did it now.

I have a table 'person' which is linked to the table 'house' and one person has one house. If I fetched the person object from the database, using option lazy=true in configuration, when I try to do person.getHouse(), i will get a proxy object instead of the real House object.



¿How can I obtain the House object back later? I remember I had to open a session (I closed the session after fetching the person object), and then use Hibernate.initialize(h) or something like this, but I cant get it to work.

Thanks for your time!

I found a way to recover the proxy object, I dont know if is the best way though



This time we have the real object in h since we have not closed the session yet

The much better approach is to load both of these in one query, one communication with the database.

See http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3. ... e-fetching as well as the sections in HQL and Criteria chapters about fetching, or using fetch profiles (3.5+)

I see your point, you are right.

In this case, I simplified the question, but instead of a house for each person, I have a collection of houses, and the database is huge, so it was important for me to fetch only persons when listing persons (not fetching the colection of houses), and the collection of houses for a person only when I have the need to.