Difference Between Hibernate get
() and load() Methods ?
Hibernate »on Sep 18, 2014 { 91 Comments } By Sivateja
What is the difference between hibernate get() and load() methods ? this is
one of the famous hibernate interview questions, most of us will use hibernate
get and load methods irrespective of knowing their exact behavior will you
accept that ? of course even myself too in the initial stages Today i will try to
clear that confusion.
Few Points About Hibernate get() & load()
•Both are from Session interface, and we will call them as session.get() &
session.load()
•Both will be use for retrieving the object (a row) from the database
Then what’s the difference them ? lets start with load() and then get() method.
Consider a Student class having 3 properties stdId, stdName, stdCountry
1. session.load()
•When you call session.load() method, it will always return a “proxy”
object, whats the meaning of proxy object ?
•Proxy means, hibernate will prepare some fake object with given identifier
value in the memory without hitting the database, for example if we call
session.load(Student.class,new Integer(107)); > hibernate will create one
fake Student object [row] in the memory with id 107, but remaining
properties of Student class will not even be initialized, observe this
