afaik n to many relations are recognized as lazy by hibernite and that should work out of the boy. For using lazy loading with lazy properties you need byte level instrumentaion by hibernate for your Entitybeans. You may give this a try (see hibernate docs for an ant task). Chance is good that all relations will work lazy afterwards. Greetz GHad View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4109804#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...