Hi guys,

Quick question please on a basic 1-many parent/child relationship:

If I do a list on all children, will Hibernate auto load the parent objects in each child?

If so, is there a way that I can tell Hibernate not to load the parents when querying the children?

Or will Hibernate load the parent objects when I call getParent() on the children?

Thanks!

The default is for lazy initialization. The parent object is loaded when it's needed. If the parent object is already loaded (is in the Hibernate session), then it doesn't have to be loaded again, it's just put in the child object as you'd expect it to be.

The ref docs explain all about lazy initialization.