I'm trying to get the size of a collection of entities within a web page. I receive this error: [LazyInitializationException] failed to lazily initialize a collection of role: I understand this is because the hibernate session is closed after a http request, but I don't understand why or the process behind this. I also don't know how to correct this without forcing the Set to have an Eager load. Can anyone point me in the right direction to read up on the first/give me an explination, and could anyone directly explain how to resolve the issue correctly. Thanks! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4060921#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...