When should one avoid using NHibernate's lazy-loading feature?

Question

Most of what I hear about NHibernate\'s lazy-loading, is that it\'s better to use it, than not to use it. It seems like it just makes sense to minimize database access, in

Answer 1

If you are using a webservice between the client and server handling the database access using nhibernate it might be problematic using lazy loading since the object will be serialized and sent over the webservice and subsequent usage of "objects" further down in the object relationship needs a new trip to the database server using additional webservices. In such an instance it might not be too good using lazy loading. A word of caution, be careful in what you fetch if you turn lazy loading of, its way to easy to not think this through and through and end up fetching almost the whole database...