Hi.

I have been trying to update a many to many realationship from the inverse entity and i am getting a 'org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: illegal access to loading collection'.

 @ManyToMany(mappedBy = "fleets", fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
 public List<User> getUsers() {
 return users;
 }

 public void setUsers(List<User> users) {
 // Add users to relation
 if (users != null) {
 for (User u : users) {
 u.getFleets().add(this);
 }
 }

 this.users = users;
 }

The offending line is u.getFleets().add(this). The user fleets seems to be lazy loaded (i specified EAGER loading on the User entity class) and the Hibernate session discarded.. However i don't know why would the hibernate session be discarded.

Doing the same with many to one and one to one relationships worked fine.

Also pointers on how else i could be doing this, or pointers to further documentation will be largely apreciated.

Thank you,
Adrian.