What is Lazy fetching in Hibernate ?

Lazy fetching is associated with loading child objects for its parents.

While loading the parent, the selection of loading a child object is to be specified / mentioned in the hbm.xml file.

Hibernate does not load the whole child objects by default.

Lazy = true

means not to load the child objects

• Lazy setting decides whether to load child objects while loading the Parent Object.
• This can be done by a setting in hibernate mapping file of the parent class. Lazy = true.
• By default the lazy loading of the child objects is true.