Hi, The system I am using contains a huge number of associated objects, therefore sometimes I would need to query / load a top-level object without any of its associated ones. Is this possible somehow to formulate a query that would return my java object without some of its attributes (i.e. the association) Thank you for any hints, Norbert ----------------------------------------------------------- If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: unsubscribe castor-dev