Introduction One of my readers bumped into the JSON mapping post and asked me if we can fetch the JSON properties lazily. This post demonstrates how easily this can be done when using Hibernate as a JPA provider. As I previously explained, EAGER fetching is a code smell and loading associations eagerly is very detriment to application performance. However, it’s not just associations that we must be careful about. Basic entity properties may also cause performance issues as well. In this post, I’m going to show you how you can fetch entity… Read More