Oh my... There must be another reason for the hibernate.LazyInitializationException: I've removed everything from web.xml that i had added, i've also removed everthing from the jsps and the beans that had anything to to with commons-fileupload, but NOW, the hibernate.LazyInitializationException still occurs! How can I find the root cause to this problem? It's getting more and more mysterious... Thank you for your help! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3962266#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...