I apologize if this is not the correct forum... I have a byte[] in an entity that I am annotating with lob and fetch=lazy. Yet when I retrieve it though a session bean, it is fully loaded. I heard that "lazy" is only a hint. It is important that I only lazily load this. Is there a more correct way to do this? In Entity: | private byte[] data; | | @Lob | @Basic(fetch=FetchType.Lazy) | public byte[] getData() { | return data; | } | ... | Things I've tried: I tried using a secondarytable annotation, but the field was still eagerly loaded. I tried creating a data table and a OneToOne relationship, but when I set this relationship to be lazily loaded, jassist returns an error. I got it to work with a OneToMany relationship, but that "bugs" me since it is really a one-to-one relationship. Thanks for the help View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3958199#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...