What does NHibernateUtil.Initialize do ?

Question

I have inherited a piece of code which calls NHibernateUtil.Initialize.

I am relatively new to NHibernate and have not been able to work out specifically what calling NHibernateUtil.Initialize does.

What does it do and in what scenarios should it be called ?

Answer 1

Basicaly it will eagerly load the domain objects that are lazily loaded or proxied by nhibernate.

Have a look at this from the NHForge website - lazy-loading-eager-loading the reference is in the bottom quarter of the article.