I think a newer version of hibernate (supporting JPA 2.0) should handle this. But otherwise you can work it around by annotating the collection fields with:
@LazyCollection(LazyCollectionOption.FALSE)
Remember to remove the fetchType
attribute from the @*ToMany
annotation.
But note that in most cases a Set<Child>
is more appropriate than List<Child>
, so unless you really need a List
– go for Set
But remind that with using sets you won’t eliminate the underlaying Cartesian Product as described by Vlad Mihalcea in his answer!