How to test whether lazy loaded JPA collection is initialized?

Are you using JPA2?

PersistenceUnitUtil has two methods that can be used to determine the load state of an entity.

e.g. there is a bidirectional OneToMany/ManyToOne relationship between Organization and User.

public void test() {
    EntityManager em = entityManagerFactory.createEntityManager();
    PersistenceUnitUtil unitUtil =
        em.getEntityManagerFactory().getPersistenceUnitUtil();

    em.getTransaction().begin();
    Organization org = em.find(Organization.class, 1);
    em.getTransaction().commit();

    Assert.assertTrue(unitUtil.isLoaded(org));
    // users is a field (Set of User) defined in Organization entity
    Assert.assertFalse(unitUtil.isLoaded(org, "users"));

    initializeCollection(org.getUsers());
    Assert.assertTrue(unitUtil.isLoaded(org, "users"));
    for(User user : org.getUsers()) {
        Assert.assertTrue(unitUtil.isLoaded(user));
        Assert.assertTrue(unitUtil.isLoaded(user.getOrganization()));
    }
}

private void initializeCollection(Collection<?> collection) {
    // works with Hibernate EM 3.6.1-SNAPSHOT
    if(collection == null) {
        return;
    }
    collection.iterator().hasNext();
}