lazy loading?

[homer84]

Hi, I have the following scenario:

• 1 zone has many countries
• 1 country has many operators
• 1 operator has many services

and I also wrote a service which I use like this:

public Collection<Country> getCountriesByZone(String zone_id)
        throws WsException{

        // No empty id allowed
        if(zone_id == null || zone_id == "")
            throw new WsException("zone_id cannot be empty");
        
        // Get the country
        Zone z = zoneService.get(zone_id);
        
        // Zone does not exist
        if(z == null)
            throw new WsException("Zone with id " + zone_id + " does not exsit");
        
        // Get the countries out of the zone
        Collection<Country> zc = z.getCountries();
        
        // Return the collection
        return zc;

    } 

and this returns me the collection of countries and for each country I also have operators and services.

how do I tell hibernate not to search partners (and therefore services)???
It has something to do with lazyloading, but I'm not sure how to configure it.

thanks!

[Maciej Moczkowski]

Hi,
It is not directly related with Spring.
Look on following topics in hibernate documentaion:

http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stab...mance-fetching

http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stab...assoc-fetching