> I've looked at the code and it looks correct to me  and tried various
> things like making the inverse LAZY.    But it always generating the
> extraneous join.  I've attached the entity source code.
>
> The relationship causing problem is
>
>   @ManyToOne
>    @JoinColumn(name="ACCOUNT_ACCOUNTID")
>    private Accountejb2 account2;

ManyToOne is eager by default, so right now both sides are eager. 
  
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