expertEntity Lifecycle, Caching & Transaction Boundaries
Why is "Open Session in View" generally considered an anti-pattern despite solving the LazyInitializationException problem?
It hides real N+1 query problems by making lazy loading "just work" anywhere in the request, and blurs the transaction boundary across the entire web layer, making it harder to reason about exactly when and where database work happens.
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