advancedSpring Internals — Bean Lifecycle & Proxies

How can Open Session in View hide performance bottlenecks until your database connection pool gets exhausted?

OSIV keeps the Hibernate session (and its DB connection) open for the entire HTTP request, including view rendering — lazy loading 'just works' anywhere in the request, but N+1 queries triggered by the view layer stay invisible, and every request holds a connection far longer than it needs to, exhausting the pool under load.

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