I thought we had discussed this once upon a time, but I could not find any email. In overhauling the documentation I ran across our long-standing recommendation that all associations be defined in metadata as lazy. JPA of course came along said that for to-one associations the default should eager. Do we want to add a setting to allow folks to alter these defaults? I know that's tough in terms of portability between providers, but that is ultimately the user's choice.