Needless to say that it would be very nice if this got addressed and fixed for 4.1.10 as I rely on "auto lazy-load" now and am unable to upgrade Hibernate to above 4.1.7, which was the last working version.

EclipseLink handles this just fine but I'm not eager to port my app

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