@Basic(fetch = FetchType.LAZY) does not work?

Question

I use JPA (Hibernate) with Spring. When i want to lazy load a Stirng property i use this syntax:

@Lob
@Basic(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
public String getHtmlSum         


        

Answer 1

from the specification of JPA they say that even if you use annotate a property to be fetched lazily, this is not guaranteed to be applied, so the properties may or may not be loaded lazily (depends on the implementer of JPA), however if you specify that you should fetch them Eagerly then the JPA implementer must load them eagerly.

Bottom line: @Basic(fetch = FetchType.LAZY) may or may not work, depends on the JPA implementer.