How to fetch lazily loaded entities?

[nitin pai]

I have a entity Dept within Employee entity. The Dept entity is set to lazy loading.

Any idea on how to do a emp.getDept() in the web tier when the DAO has long closed the session after the Employee was fetched?

Update: I am using Hibernate3 with Spring 2.0
[ November 25, 2008: Message edited by: nitin pai ]

[Paul Sturrock]

It sounds like the Session per request pattern is what you are after. Have a read of this.