Hibernate lazy-load application design

Question

I tend to use Hibernate in combination with Spring framework and it\'s declarative transaction demarcation capabilities (e.g., @Transactional).

As we all known, hib

Answer 1

A very common pattern is to use OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter if you're building a web application.

If you're building a service, I would open the TX on the public method of the service, rather than on the DAOs, as very often a method requires to get or update several entities.

This will solve any "Lazy Load exception". If you need something more advanced for performance tuning, I think fetch profiles is the way to go.