Hi there, there are currently two issues regarding lazy loading in iBATIS 2.3 (both with patches)
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IBATIS-595 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IBATIS-596 IBATIS-596 adds a new feature that allows to specify within the result map if null or a proxy object should be returned if a foreign key is null IBATIS-595 fixes an issue with CGLIB and protected method access. I'm a little but unsecure if I should apply the patches or not as I've never used ibatis with lazy loading (lazy loading in hibernate was the reason why I switch to iBATIS in the first place ;-)) and don't have any experience with it therefore. I verified that the patches doesn't break anything but I'm not sure if to apply. What do you think? cheers Kai