Is it a right way to initialize in web controller?

[DraculaCwg]

I know that have some solutions to init lazy collection in spring(hibernate).
Some thing like OpenSessionInView pattern or touch POJO inside DAO or transaction.
But I want to init lazy collection in the web controller(spring MVC).
That's my solution.

Spring MVC:

public class MyFormContrller extends SimpleFormController {
	public Map referenceData(HttpServletRequest request) {
		Item item = service.getItem();
		Set Bids = item.getBids(); // bids is lazy, iterate bids will cause LazyInitializtionException
		MyUtil.initialize(item, bids); // bids is initiated, so we can use it in view (jsp)
	}
}

MyUtil:

public class MyUtil {
	public static void initialize(Object parent, Collection children) {
		SessionFactory sessionFactory=  (SessionFactory) fCtx.getBean("sessionFactory");
		Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();
		TransactionSynchronizationManager.bindResource(sessionFactory, new SessionHolder(session));
		session.update(parent);
		Hibernate.initialize(children);
		SessionHolder holder = (SessionHolder) TransactionSynchronizationManager.getResource(sessionFactory);
		session = holder.getSession();
		session.flush();
		TransactionSynchronizationManager.unbindResource(sessionFactory);
		SessionFactoryUtils.closeSessionIfNecessary(session, sessionFactory);
	}
}

Is it a right way?

[Costin Leau]

If your code solves your problem then it's correct . OpenSessionInView is nice because you don't have to worry about lazy-init problem even if you are inside the view (Spring MVC in you case) - the session is going to be closed after the view is generated/rendered.