Lazy query.list() in Hibernate?

Question

I am using Hibernate 3.3.2 GA + Annotations. Is there a way get a lazy list back when calling list() on a query? The documentation (19.1.3) remarks:

list() does not usually return proxies.

The question is: how do I make it return proxies (or more perhaps more precisely one proxy which returns entity instances during the actual iteration)? Is that possible at all? How would I tune the batch size?

Answer 1

Maybe Query.iterate is what you want?