How do you programmatically turn off eager fetching with hibernate?

Question

I have in my mapping an association to an eagerly loaded collection (lazy=\"false\" fetch=\"subselect\"). How can I turn that off programmatically with Hibernate when I do a

Answer 1

In fact, it is supposed to be the other way around. You turn it off in the mapping, and activate it on specific use cases with a "fetch" in the query.

That's the way the Hibernate team sees it. There is no way in Hibernate to create a request that specifies "no-fetch" for a property...