How do you get equals() working with Hibernate entities when lazy=true?

For some reason when lazy=true on all my entities, the equals() method does not work correctly when one side is a lazily-loaded entity and the other side is a normal entity. Here's an example:

if(activeTask.getTask().equals(task)) {...}

In this case, the activeTask's task will be a proxy while the right side will be a regular one. The equals() will fail. To fix this problem, I often do things like this:

if(activeTask.getTask().getId() == task.getId()) {...}

This works, but it's not ideal. I'd rather use my equals() method.

Does anyone have a nice solution to this problem? It really adds to the application's level of noise to have to think about stuff like this.

If I say lazy=false, I don't have to deal with proxy's, and so equals() will work. But this has a very negative impact on performance.

It is just not cool to have to say, "equals() works in all cases, except when you use proxies... then equals() is not reliable."