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Posts that have been written about Hibernate’s LazyInitializationException could probably fill whole books. Yet, I believe each of them focuses on a particular aspect of it: some on a specific solution, some on how to solve it with Spring Boot, etc. I’d like this post to be the definitive guide on the subject, even though I’m pretty sure it won’t. At least, I’ll be able to point others to it.

The Root Cause

Whether you love or hate ORM frameworks in general, they are nonetheless pretty common in the Java ecosystem. JPA is the ORM standard and part of the Jakarta EE specifications. Hibernate is its most widespread implementation: for example, it’s the default in Spring Boot.

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