Here, in “Hibernate - Difference between session’s get() and load(),” shows how load() can optimize Hibernate’s performance compared to get(), by avoiding trips to the database. With Hibernate now being a JPA implementation, this might or might not remain to be the case. Many… Every time a Bid is placed, is ...

Hibernate allows persistent objects to be cached in its second level cache(The first level cache in Hibernate is the Session object which is ON by default). Applications can switch on the second level cache.  When a object is being retrieved by the application through Hibernate, Hibernate first checks in its Session cache and ...