Hi All,

I am new to hibernate. When I went through some tutorial i got the concept lazy loading.
So what I have understood about lazyloading is, in hibernate by default lazy loading is true. That means when parent class is loaded,it will not load the child class. Am i right? If it is right
then I have the following scenario.

I have one student class and set of phone numbers.

so When I load the studentclass from the session it is already loading the set phone numbers too..I am getting details of child class as well.

Following is the code:



Please make me correct if I am wrong.

Thanks
Bhanu lakshmi.

The call to student.getStudentPhoneNumbers() will load the set of phone numbers. The idea behind lazy loading is that it won't automatically load the associations unless they're asked for. In this case, you ask for the association right after loading the parent object, so that's when Hibernate will load the set. You may not have needed the set of phone numbers though in this session, and if you did not ask for them, Hibernate would not have loaded them.

HTH,
-Jeff

No, the phone number are not loaded in this call. It doesn't happen until the Set is used. In this case it is in the next line of code, phoneset.iterator() that loads the phone numbers.

Thanks for setting me straight, nordborg. That's an important distinction.

Kind regards,
-Jeff

Thanks all... I got the point... :)