Lazy loading in Hibernate and JPA means fetching and loading the data, only when it is needed, from a persistent storage like a database. Lazy loading improves the performance of data fetching and ...

You click on a product page and wait seconds just to see the first image load. But why didn’t the image load? Because it might have been lazy-loaded. Lazy loading ...

Also known as on-demand loading, Lazy Loading is a technique for optimizing online content. This technique, instead of loading the entire web page and rendering it in one go, loads and displays a ...

Lazy loading is a common design pattern often used for constructing resource-intensive objects. It's also frequently used in conjunction with the singleton, and/or factory patterns. Lazy loading ...

Sometimes you want child objects retrieved with the parent object, and sometimes you don't. What you NEVER want is to retrieve child objects accidentally. Here's Peter's advice on how to get the best ...