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* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate;
/**
* Represents an association fetching strategy. This is used
* together with the <tt>Criteria</tt> API to specify runtime
* fetching strategies.<br>
* <br>
* For HQL queries, use the <tt>FETCH</tt> keyword instead.
*
* @see Criteria#setFetchMode(java.lang.String, FetchMode)
* @author Gavin King
*/
public enum FetchMode {
/**
* Default to the setting configured in the mapping file.
*/
DEFAULT,
/**
* Fetch using an outer join. Equivalent to <tt>fetch="join"</tt>.
*/
JOIN,
/**
* Fetch eagerly, using a separate select. Equivalent to
* <tt>fetch="select"</tt>.
*/
SELECT;
/**
* Fetch lazily. Equivalent to <tt>outer-join="false"</tt>.
* @deprecated use <tt>FetchMode.SELECT</tt>
*/
public static final FetchMode LAZY = SELECT;
/**
* Fetch eagerly, using an outer join. Equivalent to
* <tt>outer-join="true"</tt>.
* @deprecated use <tt>FetchMode.JOIN</tt>
*/
public static final FetchMode EAGER = JOIN;
}