Martin,

Our domain and dao classes are being used by two applications one is a web app that uses our default mapping with lazy load. What I am working on is a command line app that needs to process every object of class A in the database (along with each associated collection).

maxjar,

Thanks for the link, I'll take a look.

I think I need to do some more reading on Hibernate before I waste anymore of anyone's time.

Thanks to everyone for the comments.