Coming back to your original question: "mars1412" wrote : | | | however I have a bad feeling about this - I'm if this will work in all cases with lazy loading, hibernate proxies and stuff I might not even know about. | | What do you think? I don't see any problems in this approach, in terms of lazy loading and proxies in Hibernate. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4168963#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...