Lazy loading in JPA

[Ashwin Pai]

Hi All,

I have a question about lazy loading...
I have the following relationship
1 Book has 0..* Reviews.

Scenario is
User searches for books. And then clicks on the book of interest. The system should display all the Reviews for the books.

I am using JPA and I have modelled my Book class to have a List<Review> objects.
I have annotated Reviews as a lazy load.

Now when user searches for books, I use a named query for searching the books. As per my understanding of lazy load, the reviews will not be loaded.
Now these Book entities are serialized and passed to the presentation tier and displayed using jsp. Once the user clicks the book of interest I want to load the reviews for the book.
Will the reviews be loaded if I refer the member ? or Do i have to use the EM to get the reviews using named queries ?

Thanks
Ashwin

[Reza Rahman]

Ashwin,

What is your persistence provider?

Regards,
Reza

[Ashwin Pai]

Originally posted by Reza Rahman:
Ashwin,

What is your persistence provider?

Regards,
Reza

Hi Reza,
I am in the process of creating class diagrams & sequence diagrams for SCEA assignment. I was not sure if lazy loading is implemented differently by different vendors!!! I would like to design something which is not provider dependent..if thats why raised the question!!
So would it make sence to make the reference to Reviews transient and have it loaded through named queries ?

Aprreciate your time!!

Thanks
Ashwin

[Reza Rahman]

Ashwin,

Lazy loading behavior outside an active transaction is currently vendor dependent.

Regards,
Reza