Can anyone help me understand what is meant by Lazy fetchin ???
N how is it helpful ??? In what cases should it be set to true/false/proxy

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

User
- Set Events

User
- Set Events

User
- Set Events


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:

User
- Set events (uninitialized)

User
- Set events (uninitialized)

User
- Set events (uninitialized)


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:


User
- Set events (initialized)
- - Event 1
- - Event 2
- - Event 3
- - .......

User
- Set events (uninitialized)

User
- Set events (uninitialized)

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Thanks Vinay.. But i dint get the link to rate ur reply :(

http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/m91885369.html

Refer this thread......might be helpfull

Sudhir

Thanks Sudhir.. But i got my reply from the same link.. They have explained it very well :)