Can someone confirm my observation below?

Does hibernate cache an entity marked as cacheable and lazy (default configuration for a class with hibernate 3.x) ?

From my observation, if I mark an persistent class as lazy="false" in hbm.xml ,
the entity is stored and fetched from cache when invoked through apis like load() , iterate() , etc;
otherwise it is not.

Is this the way its meant to be?

Thanks

Err, if I read your question correctly at first glance I'd answer no. But are you speaking about first or second level cache? If first one, then, no. lazy of eager loading is not related to caching or not.

Simply, instances are just cached in the first level cache after having been retrieved.

I understand you are asking about the second level cache.

I think lazy attribuet is not related with cache behaviour.

lazy entities will use proxies to evict unnecessary loads. Non lazy entities will always load their content when accessed.

Cache (2L) is used when loading an entity by their id. That can be a non lazy entity or a proxy (lazy) entity when accessing its properties (so, it needs to access its state by-passing proxy)

Please correct me if I'm wrong