Within the facade you should be performing this joining operation. Simply pass the two objects to the facade, have the facade 'find' the managed versions and join them or merge the serialized version and join the results of the merge.
Alternately you could trigger the collection on the server through the facade before retrieving the object but this requires that you anticipate the change.
--Gordon
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