How to solve the LazyInitializationException when using JPA and Hibernate

Hibernate 4.1.6 finally solves this issue: https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-7457

You need to set the hibernate-property hibernate.enable_lazy_load_no_trans=true

Here’s how to do it in Spring:

<bean id="entityManagerFactory"
      class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="myDataSource"/>
    <property name="packagesToScan" value="com.mycompany.somepackage"/>
    <property name="jpaVendorAdapter" ref="hibernateVendorAdapter"/>
    <property name="jpaDialect" ref="jpaDialect"/>
    <property name="jpaProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="hibernate.enable_lazy_load_no_trans">true</prop>
        </props>
    </property>
</bean>

Voila; Now you don’t have to worry about LazyInitializationException while navigating your domain-model outside of a hibernate-session (persistence-context in “JPA-speak”)

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