I may consider performance and memory utilization. One big difference is that EAGER fetch strategy allows to use fetched data object without session. Why? All data is fetched when eager marked data in the object when session is connected. However, in case of lazy loading strategy, lazy loading marked object does not retrieve data if session is disconnected (after session.close() statement). All that can be made by hibernate proxy. Eager strategy lets data to be still available after closing session.

有时你有两个实体它们之间有关系。例如，你可能有一个实体叫University，另一个实体叫Student，一个University可能有很多Student:

University实体可能有一些基本属性，如id、名称、地址等，以及一个名为students的集合属性，它返回给定大学的学生列表:

public class University {
   private String id;
   private String name;
   private String address;
   private List<Student> students;

   // setters and getters
}

现在，当您从数据库加载University时，JPA将为您加载它的id、名称和地址字段。但是你有两种选择:

将它与其他字段一起加载(即急切地加载)，或者 在调用大学的getStudents()方法时按需加载它(即惰性加载)。

当一所大学有很多学生时，加载所有的学生并不是有效的，特别是当他们不需要的时候，在这种情况下，你可以声明你想要在实际需要学生的时候加载他们。这被称为惰性加载。

下面是一个例子，学生被明确地标记为急切加载:

@Entity
public class University {

    @Id
    private String id;

    private String name;

    private String address;

    @OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
    private List<Student> students;

    // etc.    
}

这里有一个例子，学生被明确地标记为惰性加载:

@Entity
public class University {

    @Id
    private String id;

    private String name;

    private String address;

    @OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
    private List<Student> students;

    // etc.
}

I may consider performance and memory utilization. One big difference is that EAGER fetch strategy allows to use fetched data object without session. Why? All data is fetched when eager marked data in the object when session is connected. However, in case of lazy loading strategy, lazy loading marked object does not retrieve data if session is disconnected (after session.close() statement). All that can be made by hibernate proxy. Eager strategy lets data to be still available after closing session.

来自Javadoc:

EAGER策略是持久性提供程序运行时的一个要求，即必须急切地获取数据。LAZY策略是对持久性提供程序运行时的一个提示，即在第一次访问数据时应该以惰性方式获取数据。

例如，渴望比懒惰更主动。Lazy只发生在第一次使用时(如果提供者接受了暗示)，而对于急切的东西(可能)会被预取。

FetchType。LAZY和FetchType。EAGER用于定义默认的读取计划。

不幸的是，您只能覆盖LAZY抓取的默认抓取计划。EAGER抓取不太灵活，可能导致许多性能问题。

我的建议是克制将关联设置为EAGER的冲动，因为取回是查询时的责任。因此，您的所有查询都应该使用fetch指令来只检索当前业务用例所需的内容。

public enum FetchType extends java.lang.Enum Defines strategies for fetching data from the database. The EAGER strategy is a requirement on the persistence provider runtime that data must be eagerly fetched. The LAZY strategy is a hint to the persistence provider runtime that data should be fetched lazily when it is first accessed. The implementation is permitted to eagerly fetch data for which the LAZY strategy hint has been specified. Example: @Basic(fetch=LAZY) protected String getName() { return name; }

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