Hibernate fetching strategy - when to use “join” and when to use “select”?

Question

Most Hibernate associations support \"fetch\" parameter:

fetch=\"join|select\"

with \"select\" being default value.

How to decide

Answer 1

fetching="join" If you do fetching="join" it will retrive all the information in a single select statement.

fetching="select" if you want to paas the second select statement to fetch the associated collection than in that case you will use fetch="select".

source :Hibernate Fetching Strategies