Ok, I've got a entity bean with a property annotated like so: @JoinColumn(name="background", nullable=false) @ManyToOne(cascade={CascadeType.PERSIST}, fetch=FetchType.EAGER) @LazyToOne(LazyToOneOption.FALSE) public Background getBackground() { return background; } Which if I'm reading everything properly should cause the Background object to be initialized when the entity bean is loaded from the DB, however I keep getting a LazyInitiaalizationException when I attempt to access that method saying that the owning session was closed. Why is it trying to load the background lazily when I specificly listed it as non-lazy and eager? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3960226#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...