Default fetch type for one-to-one, many-to-one and one-to-many in Hibernate

It depends on whether you are using JPA or Hibernate.

From the JPA 2.0 spec, the defaults are:

OneToMany: LAZY
ManyToOne: EAGER
ManyToMany: LAZY
OneToOne: EAGER

And in hibernate, all is Lazy

UPDATE:

The latest version of Hibernate aligns with the above JPA defaults.

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