This is something new to me, I always thought that lazy initialization is to boost performance. So we should really use eager fetching by default and minimize the use of OSIV.
On 8/22/07, Toni Lyytikäinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "And, is there a better alternative than using > OpenSessionInViewInterceptor?" > > Yes. It's important to realise that while OpenSessionInView feels very > handy, it is not a particularly nice design pattern, as it can stress your > database with lots of small queries. It's best to learn how to do eager > fetching with Hibernate and use it for most cases and rely on OSIV only in > some special cases where eager fetching is not possible. This way it's often > possible to build entire web applications without resorting to use OSIV. > -- Hez
