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We all know that the default fetching strategy for hibernate is lazy. But, wait, is it, really ?

As you might have guessed by now, it’s not. Indeed, for @OneToOne and @ManyToOne annotations (and only theses annotations), the default is eager. Funny no ? Oh, I forgot : don’t ask me why, I can just tell it’s the case (from one issue at work, some digging into the topic and this nice topic – which includes links to the doc for the non believers - on the hibernate forum).

Time to think at some way to always ask for explicit fetching strategy for ManyToOne annotations… Maven plugin to the rescue ? We shall see !

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