Why is Hibernate Open Session in View considered a bad practice?

Question

And what kind of alternative strategies do you use for avoiding LazyLoadExceptions?

I do understand that open session in view has issues with:

• Layered

Answer 1

• transactions can be committed in the service layer - transactions are not related to OSIV. It's the Session that stays open, not a transaction - running.

• if your application layers are spread across multiple machines, then you pretty much can't use OSIV - you have to initialize everything you need before sending the object over the wire.

• OSIV is a nice and transparent (i.e. - none of your code is aware that it happens) way to make use of the performance benefits of lazy loading