Hi,

I have been developing an add-on to Hibernate which helps to automate fetch joins and association laziness: Autofetch. Autofetch monitors your program's traversal's and learns to add the right association fetches to your criteria queries and loads/gets. No more worrying about the right lazy settings on in your configuration file or creating multiple versions of a query with different fetch joins. The goal is to make programs easier to write and to make them more modular.

Check it out at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~aibrahim/autofetch

I have been reading your pdfs, interesting stuff. I am going to try it in some time soon ...


Regards
Vyas, Anirudh

congratulations, that's a very interesting paper!

I have experienced the need to manually specify all fetch strategies, that's a real maintenance nightmare and your project should solve it brilliantly.

Please, drop some lines about the usage!
Would like to try it, but couldn't find any documentation or wiki.

There is a link to the documentation at the top of the page on the Autofetch home page. The documentation is pretty basic, but feel free to post on the Sourceforge forums any questions you might have. Keep in mind that the first time your queries execute they will be slow because Autofetch has not "learned" the correct prefetch directives yet, but afterwards they should be pretty fast; perfect for J2EE and other long-lived applications.

thanks a lot!