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Lazy loading in Hibernate and JPA means fetching and loading the data, only when it is needed, from a persistent storage like a database. Lazy loading improves the performance of data fetching and ...

It’s good to understand the need for object/relational mapping (ORM) in Java applications, but you’re probably eager to see Hibernate in action. We’ll start by showing you a simple example that ...

I've just taken the plunge into learning NHibernate with a small utility that will utilise an existing fixed, proprietary schema. There are two tables I'm interested in in this schema right now (users ...