Clarifying terminology - What does “hydrating” a JPA or Hibernate entity mean when fetching the entity from the DB

Question

In the context of ORM / Lazy loading of entities, my understanding of the term \"Hydration\" is as follows:

\"Hydrating\" describes the process of populating some or

Answer 1

hydration is a loose term. In our company we use "rehydration" as he term to load all the object properties of an entire object graph. Here is a post that talks about various levels of hydration (again this is a general usage though they are using in the context of hibernate).