[rules-users] Hibernate session and 'from'

Hello, I am using Hibernate lazy loading in the facts I am inserting and am noticing some odd behaviour when I use 'from'. Here is a simplified example of my problem. In the first rule I just want to populate the working memory with the Child objects, it uses Hibernate lazy loading fine and inserts the facts, however in the second rule I get an exception when accessing the GrandGrandChild saying that the object does not have a session. If I add some debug code to the first rule to access the GrandGrandChild I get the same error. This is using session-per-request and the Parent object was inserted in the current session. rule "get children - broken" when $parent : Parent( ) $child : Child( ) from $parent.children then insert($child); end rule "do stuff" when $child : Child( ) then GrandChild grandChild = $child.getGrandChild(); # it blows up on the next line GrandGrandChild grandGrandChild = grandChild.getGrandGrandChild(); end If I replace the first rule with the following everything works as expected and I can match on Child objects and access whatever I wish, so I know there should be a session available in the "do stuff" rule. rule "get children - working" when $parent : Parent( ) then for(Child child : $parent.getChildren()) { insert(child); } end I am able to use the "working" version in my code however the "broken" version seems like the more correct way to do this in Drools. I'd like to understand what is going on in case it is my fault or an issue I need to be aware of. Could it be something to do with the from keyword or the "cast" to Child( )? Is there some "magic" done in Drools which could remove/invalidate the Hibernate proxy? Thanks, Gareth