[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - LazyLoading question when accessing to attributes from class

Hello, I have set some attributes with LazyLoading property, it's working great. But I have question. Take this example | @OneToMany(mappedBy = "content", cascade = { CascadeType.PERSIST, | CascadeType.MERGE, CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.REFRESH }, fetch=FetchType.LAZY) | private List<Content> contents; | | .... | with the setter and getter. | .... | | If I call getContents() method, the lazy loading is working perfectly and hibernates doing his job. Now if I have a method that make a search in contents list... I will have | | public void doStuffInContents() { | | // Doing stuff on contents attributes... | | } | | Of course, the contents attributes is null... The solution can be using getContents() method instead contents attributes directly. Anothe one could be : | if (contents == null) | contents = getContents(); | in each method using the attributes. But I don't like these two... I would like to get your point of view... Thanks ! Regards, View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4110899#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...