Question: how-to serialize Hibernate (proxy) objects

[zetzet]

I am currently searching for a JSON serializer that works with Hibernate Objects, that are partly initialized.
The current problem i face is a Hibernate LazyInitializationException, that a Hibernate PersistentSet will throw when json-io tries to serialize a collection that was not loaded by Hibernate.
I would like to skip the collection content serialization when PersistentSet.wasInitialized() returns true.
What is the right approach for this? I looked at the blacklist, but that doesn't really fit my problem.
Thanks for any hints, Jürgen

[John DeRegnaucourt]

Serializers are going to read json and then assign the values at the field level, not calling hibernate methods to 'load' or 'fault-in' the objects. Can you traverse your hibernate object graph first. If you do that, then you should be able to serialize your hibernate objects.