Hello,

I would like to understand limitations of "Outer join fetching" feature.
When does it work, when not?

Thanks

Hi,

Could u be a bit more specific about when u expect the "Outer join fetching" to work??

The outer join fetch, as you might be knowing,is primarily aimed at enabling "eager initialization" of all the relevant objects in a Single SQL
select.

NB: The eager initialization would happen if a fetch clause is used,even when the loading mechanism of the objects is defined "lazy" in the Mapping

thanks
~santosh

Well,

Hibernate 2.1.2 disables outer join fetching:
1. when in map, bag or other collection outer-join attribute is not defined , or it is defined as "auto".
2. when subclass contais association to parent class.
3. when proxy or lazy initialization is defained for assotiation or collection.

To be continued...