I am thinking of using lazy initialization of collections in thier getters: example: private java.util.Set<MyEntity> myEntities; | | public java.util.Set<MyEntity> getMyEntities() { | if (myEntities == null) { | myEntities = new HashSet<MyEntity>(); | } | return myEntities; | | } this would be nice because I would not need the explicit null checks in my buissneslogic. however I have a bad feeling about this - I'm if this will work in all cases with lazy loading, hibernate proxies and stuff I might not even know about. What do you think? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4168918#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...