Please allow me to ask these basic questions in the search functions with a with performance perspective.

I understand the basic differences between the methods find(), load(), and get() (which is the upfront knowledge of the id). Thinkng of performance, I have these questions:

1. Does find() do the same as that of load() in terms of locking the tables in a JDBC transaction and performing?

2. The docs says

"If you are not certain that a matching row exists, you should use the get() method, which hits the database immediately and returns null if there is no matching row"

How is this different from a find()?


Thanks,
Madhan.

find() and load() may return proxys.

So, can I safely assume that get() may hinder performance as it does not use proxys? Or is there any other special case where I can only use a get() and not load().

Similarly, load() sounds like an efficient way over to find() as it loads only one object where as a find() may return many objects most of them not required. I am doing a load() after getting the id from find() as I think the extra results can be safely garbage collected this way. Is this an advisable practice?

Thanks.