Hi all,
I have the following question. I have an entity "Bug" that has a collection of "Bug" inside (these are the bugs related to the first one). This object is quite big and because of Web Services use I cannot use lazy loading and also this relation causes a cycle in the object graph (a big problem for CXF web services marshalling). What I want is to maintain the relation on the database between objects (e.g. foreign key), expecially for searches with criteria. Is it possible to define a query that in the loading phase only loads specific fields (e.g. identifier). I've seen the Loader tag that can be defined in the hbm...is it the correct way to do this?
Thanks for your help.

I tried to solve this problem with a native query but it's impossible to fetch only some columns from the resultset (http://opensource.atlassian.com/project ... e/HHH-3035). Is there any workaround to do this?