Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi;
[Glassfish 9.1 Toplink]
In a simple parent child ejb3 entity bean, where then child list (@OneToMany in the parent entity) is annotated with a fetchtype LAZY;
How do I 'manually' load the child list on demand? I thought that by merely calling the getter on the child list, jpa will load it,
but I get back a list with null entries. With the exact same code, but with the fetchtype EAGER I correctly get the child list.

To be a little clearer: I am [remotely] calling a stateless session bean that does a em.find on the parent entity.
Of course in the remote client, detached, if LAZY fetched, I properly get a Toplink exception if I try to get the child list. Great.
BUT, the problem is that even in the server tier, in the same method in the session bean, before it returns the entity to the client,
I sometimes want to populate the parent entity with the child list (as if it was eager),
so I do a manual get on the child list, but it is an empty (non-instantiated) list, as observed by the debugger at the server tier.

Thank you much;
nat