What's the advantage of load() vs get() in Hibernate?

Question

Can anyone tell me what\'s the advantage of load() vs get() in Hibernate?

Answer 1

Get() returns the object by fetching it from database or from hibernate cache whereas load() just returns the reference of an object that might not actually exists, it loads the data from database or cache only when you access other properties of the object.

With load(), we are able to print the id but as soon as we try to access other fields, it fires database query and throws org.hibernate.ObjectNotFoundException if there is no record found with the given identifier. It’s hibernate specific Runtime Exception, so we don’t need to catch it explicitly.