<hibernate-configuration>

    <session-factory name="SessionFactory">

        <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:oracle:thin:@myServer:1521:SID</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.username">user</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.password">pwd</property>
        <!-- END TEST_CONFIG -->

        <property name="hibernate.dialect">net.sf.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect</property>
        <property name="hibernate.show_sql">false</property>
        <property name="hibernate.session_factory_name"></property>

        <mapping resource="spike/hibernate/Person.hbm.xml"/>

    </session-factory>

</hibernate-configuration>

<hibernate-mapping>
    <class name="spike.hibernate.Person" table="person">

        <id column="id" type="long" access="field" name="id">
            <generator class="increment"/>
        </id>

        <property name="name" column="first_name" access="field" />
        <bag name="addresses" access="field" table="address" >

            <key>
                <column name="person_id"/>
            </key>
            <composite-element class="spike.hibernate.Address">
                <property access="field" name="id" column="id"/>
                <property access="field" name="address" column="address"/>
            </composite-element>

        </bag>

    </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

public class LazyCriteriaTest extends TestCase {
    private Session session;
    private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

    protected void setUp() throws Exception {
        Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
        configuration.configure("/hibernate.cfg.xml");
        sessionFactory = configuration.buildSessionFactory();
        session = sessionFactory.openSession();
    }

    public void testLazyLoadingDoesNotInitialiseTheLazyCollection() throws Exception {
        Transaction transaction = session.beginTransaction();
        Person person = createPerson();
        session.save(person);
        transaction.commit();
        session.close();
        session = sessionFactory.openSession();
       
        Person fetched =
                (Person) session.createCriteria(Person.class).
                    setFetchMode("addresses", FetchMode.LAZY).
                    add(Expression.eq("id", person.id)).
                    uniqueResult();

        assertFalse("Should not have initialised the collection.", Hibernate.isInitialized(fetched.addresses));
    }

    private Person createPerson() {
        List addresses = new ArrayList();
        addresses.add(new Address("my address", new Long(1)));
        addresses.add(new Address("his address", new Long(2)));
        Person person = new Person("Chris", addresses);
        return person;
    }
}

public class Person {

    String name;
    Long id;
    List addresses;

    public Person() {
    }

    public Person(String name, List addresses) {
        this.name = name;
        this.addresses = addresses;
    }

}

public class Address {

    String address;
    Long id;


    public Address() {
    }

    public Address(String address, Long id) {
        this.address = address;
        this.id = id;
    }
}

junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: Should not have initialised the collection.
   at spike.hibernate.LazyCriteriaTest.testLazyLoadingDoesNotInitialiseTheLazyCollection(LazyCriteriaTest.java:36)
   at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit2.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:31)
   at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:78)