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Wht is the lazy initializaion in hibernate
wht is the use???
How to configure??

Imagine you have a group of users. Every user has a set of events to attend.


If you apply lazy initialization, it means that you can list all the users, without initializing the Events for each user. It would look like this:


This is used for performance reasons. It is also a logical feature, because you don't need information about the events, if you ask information about the users.

Whenever you want information about the events, hibernate will lazy-load (right on time, when you want it) the events about that user. So imagine you want information about the events of user 1. It will look like this:

how to configure it

Lazy initialization is the default behavior.