Hi, Thanks for the reply. I've tried two ways, most recently I'm doing this in an EJB stateless session bean: | public List<TdmAlerts> getAlertsFromEntity(MyEntity entity) { | entityManager.refresh(entity); | return entity.getTdmAlerts(); | } | Previously I was just using this same bean to return the entity after doing an entityManager.find and within my JSF application wrapping the List returned from the entity in a ListDataModel for display in the JSP. This worked before switching to LAZY. Also, I'm not closing the session and I can't even find in the java doc how to do such a thing if I wanted to! I've certainly hunted around for some clues on how to work within the session to bypass this problem. Thanks again for the help. Mike View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3978625#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...