What does Hibernate.initialize do?

Question

What does Hibernate.initialize do?
Usually referred documentation talk only about

Hibernate.initialize(entity.lazyCollection)

Is ther

Answer 1

I agree with Alan Hay, here is my experience, I've had this problem when running the JUNit tests, some of the lazy objects were not loading when trying to load the objects in another session. I had to call the Hibernate.initialize(Object) to load the lazy objects into the memory.