advancedEntity Lifecycle, Caching & Transaction Boundaries
Why does accessing a lazy relationship after the transaction ends throw an exception instead of returning stale data?
The lazy proxy needs an open persistence context to run its fetch query when first accessed — once the transaction (and persistence context) has closed, there's no session left to fetch through, so Hibernate throws rather than silently failing.
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