Sohil and I looked into it. Changing lazy=true from lazy=extra in hibernate/portal/domain.hbm.xml, a call to getChildren(name) results into hibernate using cache. So, we need to figure out how to enable caching with lazy=extra as reducing lazy loading to true or false may not be a good idea when number of portal objects is big. This tuning would also need to be done for displayNames as well. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4169970#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...