Hey I am developing an desktop application using Spring and Hibernate, and I have a problem with lazy initiation. I looked in the web and every solution is related to the open session in view pattern, but I can’t use this pattern. I’ve also tried to get the sessionfactory from the HibernateTemplate, but it returns to me a disconnected session.
Does anyone know other solution?
I would suggest that you basically have two solutions:
Make arrangements to keep a Hibernate session open when you access a lazy-initialized object or collection. That means you’re going to have to carefully mark your transaction boundaries in your code, a la the ‘open session in view’ pattern. Spring makes this possible, but in a desktop application it won’t be as straightforward as a web application where the transaction boundaries are a little more obvious.
Turn off all the lazy-initialization for your persisted objects in Hibernate.
Option 2 could lead to a lot of unnecessary database access, and option 1 means you have to seriously study your workflow and use cases.
Hope that helps!