[jboss-user] [Persistence, JBoss/CMP, Hibernate, Database] - lazily initialize collections in their getters

[mars1412]

I am thinking of using lazy initialization of collections in thier getters:
example:
   private java.util.Set<MyEntity> myEntities;
  | 
  |    public java.util.Set<MyEntity> getMyEntities() {
  |       if (myEntities == null) {
  |           myEntities = new HashSet<MyEntity>();
  |       }
  |       return myEntities;
  | 
  |    }


this would be nice because I would not need the explicit null checks in my buissneslogic.

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?

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