thanks. great news. the depth of the object graph is indeed what still needs to be discussed. i think i have posted already some ideas before on this dev forum. probably the most easy solution is to just resolve the minimal graph (only using hibernate's lazy loading) and then using inheritence for expanding this graph as needed. if a user wants a more deeply resolved objectgraph, he/she can just subclass the original command and add navigation to activate lazy initialization. what do you think ? regards, tom. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4027201#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...