Spring, @Transactional and Hibernate Lazy Loading

Question

i\'m using spring + hibernate. All my HibernateDAO use directly sessionFactory.

I have application layer -> service layer -> DAO layer and all collections is lazly loade

Answer 1

1. Create a method in the service layer that returns the lazy-loaded object for that entity
2. Change to fetch eager :)
3. If possible extend your transaction into the application layer

(just while we wait for someone who knows what they are talking about)