Force eager loading of otherwise lazy loaded properties
I've got a Hibernate object which's properties are all loaded lazy. Most of these properties are other Hibernate objects or PersistentSets. Now I want to force Hibernate to eager load these properties for just one time. Of course I could "touch" each of these properties with object.getSite().size() but maybe there's another way to achieve my goal. The documentation puts it like this: You can force the usual eager fetching of properties using fetch all properties in HQL. References Hibernate Core Reference Guide 19.1.7. Using lazy property fetching stephen.hanson This is an old question, but I