Hi! After setting up all my hibernate mappings I can't get rid of the following exception: ERROR [LazyInitializationException] could not initialize proxy - the owning Session was closed org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: could not initialize proxy - the owning Session was closed at org.hibernate.proxy.AbstractLazyInitializer.initialize(AbstractLazyInitializer.java:60) at org.hibernate.proxy.AbstractLazyInitializer.getImplementation(AbstractLazyInitializer.java:102) at org.hibernate.proxy.pojo.cglib.CGLIBLazyInitializer.intercept(CGLIBLazyInitializer.java:160) at .......bo.AppointmentBO$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$b3086c3e_4.toString() .................... The application is able to fetch the records from the database but as soon as I try to iterate over the PersistentSet it throws the exception stated above. I read on the Internet that I should use org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyFactoryBean which takes care of HibernateSession handling. My *.hbm.xml files do not contain lazy="true" tags. Can someone help me out? Your help will be greatly appreciated! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3969701#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...