You might have to tell Hibernate to initialize the collection first. Then use the list and there should be stuff in it. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4121417#4121417 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4121417