Hibernate Issuing select statement even if FetchMode = Join

Question

I have a userAccount entity mapped with a country entity . The country mapping in UserAccount class is like this

@ManyToOne(fetch=FetchType.EAGER) @Fetch(FetchMode.JOIN) @JoinColumn(name="f_country_id", nullable=true, insertable=false, updatable=false) private Country country; 

Even there is fetchmode defined as Join, hibernate fires a separate SQL Select to fetch countries.

Answer 1

Remove the fetch=FetchType.EAGER. Eager fetching triggers cascading select statements.