How to use lazy loading in Spring MVC

Question

How to use lazy loading in Spring MVC? I'm using eager at this moment, but this makes my app works slowler. This is part of my domain:

@ManyToMany(fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
@JoinTable(name = "NEWS_TAG", joinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "NEWS_ID"), inverseJoinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "TAG_ID"))
private List<Tags> tags = new ArrayList<Tags>();

public List<Tags> getTags() {
    return this.tags;
}

And dao:

public List<News> getSomeNews(long b, long hm) {

    List<News> news = (List<News>) sessionFactory
            .getCurrentSession()
            .createQuery(
                    "from News WHERE title!='About' ORDER BY publish_time")
            .setMaxResults((int) hm).setFirstResult((int) b).list();
    return news;
}

Servlet-context:

    <context:annotation-config />

    <context:component-scan base-package="net.babobka.blog" />



    <import resource="../../db/db-config.xml" />

    <bean id="urlForwardController"
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.UrlFilenameViewController" />

    <bean id="tilesConfigurer"
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
        <property name="definitions">
            <list>
                <value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</value>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="viewResolver"
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
        <property name="viewClass"
            value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView" />
    </bean>

</beans>

Db-config:

<bean id="propertyConfigurer"
        class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
        p:location="/WEB-INF/db/jdbc.properties" />

    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
        destroy-method="close" p:driverClassName="${jdbc.driverClassName}"
        p:url="${jdbc.databaseurl}" p:username="${jdbc.username}" p:password="${jdbc.password}" />

    <bean id="sessionFactory"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
        <property name="configLocation">
            <value>/WEB-INF/db/hibernate.cfg.xml</value>
        </property>
        <property name="configurationClass">
            <value>org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration</value>
        </property>
        <property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props>
                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${jdbc.dialect}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">${jdbc.show_sql}</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="transactionManager"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
        <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
    </bean>

    <tx:annotation-driven />

</beans>

Web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">

    <!-- The definition of the Root Spring Container shared by all Servlets 
        and Filters -->
    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>

        <param-value>
        /WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml
        /WEB-INF/spring/application-security.xml
        </param-value>
    </context-param>



    <!-- Creates the Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
    </listener>



    <!-- Processes application requests -->
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/servlet-context.xml</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.gif</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
    </filter>

    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>

    <filter>
        <filter-name>hibernateFilterChain</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewFilter</filter-class>
    </filter>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>hibernateFilterChain</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>




</web-app>

What I have to do to solve my problem?

Answer 1

You can use OpenSessionInViewFilter to prevent hibernate session get closed. Add this to web.xml:

  <filter>
    <filter-name>hibernateFilterChain</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.support.OpenSessionInViewFilter</filter-class>
  </filter>
  <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>hibernateFilterChain</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  </filter-mapping>

@see read more here: OpenSessionInViewFilter

And remove fetch = FetchType.EAGER. @ManyToMany is LAZY by default.

Answer 2

Change your annotation to (fetch = FetchType.LAZY). Be aware that if you're passing the result to some code outside the transaction (such as a view template), you might encounter errors if associated objects needed by the external code haven't already been loaded.