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Fetching or loading data can be primarily classified into two types: eager and lazy. In order to use Hibernate make sure you add the latest version of it to the dependencies section of your pom.xml file: <dependency> <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId> <artifactId>hi...

For those who haven't played with these two designs, the scope of lazy and eager is within a specific Session of SessionFactory. Eager loads everything instantly, means there is no need to call anything for fetching it. But lazy fetch usually demands some action to retrieve mapped collection/object....