Accessing an object's fields without an active session

Question

I\'m using Hibernate 4.0.1.Final. Is it possible to access an object\'s fields if that object has been loaded via the org.hibernate.Session.load(Class clazz, Serializable id) m

Answer 1

Use session.get(Class, Serializable) instead of session.load(Class, Serializable)

Load will return a proxy to the object, this object is loaded from the database when you first access a property on the proxy. If you use session.get() you're guaranteed to get a fully initialized object back.

The other difference between load and get is the result of an object not being found. Get will return null whereas load will always return a proxy. This proxy will throw an exception when a property is accessed.