Suppose both the association from Category to Item and from Item to Bid are one-to-many. I declare outer-join="true" for both associations and load a single Category. I think Hibernate should execute only one query, but it do two. Then, I think the problem lies in the global fetch depth. Thoug I set the global fetch depth to 4, the result is the same(two queries). Why?
Any comment on this thread will be appreciated.