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Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1, 6th Edition
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Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1, 6th Edition

by Andrew Lee Rubinger, Bill Burke
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
766 pages
18h 35m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Detached Entities and FetchType

In Chapter 9, we discussed how managed entity instances become detached from a persistence context when the persistence context ends. Since these entity instances are no longer managed by any persistence context, they may have uninitialized properties or relationships. If you are returning these detached entities to your clients and basically using them as data transfer objects between the client and server, you need to fully understand the effects of accessing any uninitialized relationships.

When an entity instance becomes detached, its state might not be fully initialized, because some of its persistent properties or relationships may be marked as lazily loaded in the mapping metadata. Each relationship annotation has a fetch() attribute that specifies whether the relationship property is loaded when the entity is queried. If the fetch() attribute is set to FetchType.LAZY, then the relationship is not initialized until it is traversed in your code:

Employee employee = entityManager.find(Employee.class, id);
employee.getPhones().size();

Invoking the size() method of the phones collection causes the relationship to be loaded from the database. It is important to note that this lazy initialization does not happen unless the entity bean is being managed by a persistence context. If the entity bean is detached, the specification is not clear on what actions the persistence provider should perform when accessing an unloaded relationship of a detached entity. ...

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