Posts made in March, 2008

  

Improving Performance via Eager Fetching in Hibernate

Posted by Basil Vandegriend on March 15th, 2008. Categories: Java Tags: , ,

My previous article started discussing Hibernate relationships, focusing on lazy versus non-lazy relationships. This article continues the theme by discussing how to improve performance when dealing with relationships in Hibernate through a feature called eager fetching.
Hibernate’s abstraction of database access behind getter and setter methods on domain objects hides potentially inefficient database access. Mindlessly using [...]

Avoid Non-Lazy Relationships in Hibernate

Posted by Basil Vandegriend on March 5th, 2008. Categories: Java Tags: , ,

Support for entity relationships is a great time-saving feature in Hibernate, but it can also be a trap for the unsuspecting developer. Handling relationships between entities can be a complex business, and I for one am glad for all the support that Hibernate provides. Hibernate’s assistance, however, can do more harm than good when it [...]