Hibernate initialize depth

pkipping · **Joined:** Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:19 am **Posts:** 7

If we assume that Cat has a collection of kittens and kitten has a collection of toys and I call

Hibernate.initialize(cat.getKittens());

does that mean the toys collection is also initialized? If so, is there a way to just get kittens without toys?

thanks,
Peter

sanne.grinovero · **Posted:** Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:45 pm

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does that mean the toys collection is also initialized?

No.
Read about lazy loading on the reference docs: http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.6/reference/en-US/html_single/