Hibernate recursive initialization

Question

i am writing one function in hibernate to recursively initialize all properties of object recursively so whole object graph is loaded.

i have two complex scenarios w

Answer 1

you can use Hibernate.initialize() on the object to initialise it. I'm not sure if this cascades. Otherwise you could check instanceof HibernateProxy which gives you an isInitialised property.

Update: since initialize does not cascade you need to traverse the tree like you do already. Use a Hashset to keep track of objects you already processed.