Hi, since this thread pops up in various searches, just wanted to note that Hibernate 4 allows to solve this problem using:
See http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core...ching-profilesCode:@FetchProfile(name = "customer-with-orders", fetchOverrides = {
@FetchProfile.FetchOverride(entity = Customer.class, association = "orders", mode = FetchMode.JOIN)
})
