Ravi, It's been a while since I used Hibernate last time, but as far as I remember, you may do either: * call any method (e.g. size()) on your proxied collection to trigger lazy collection initialization * Call Hibernate.initialize(collectionProxy) * Use @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.EAGER) in your relation definition
You should consult Hibernate documentation chapter regarding lazy collection initialization and proxies. Hope this helps, Alexey
