Auto Fetch : A great Add on to Hibernate!
I was rummaging through Hibernate forums and I stumbled upon something interesting
The goal of Autofetch is reduce the modularity penalty and programmer burden of specifying associations which should be loaded with an object query. These specifications are sometimes are called fetch profiles, prefetch directives, or joins. These specifications are an important performance optimization because they reduce the number of round-trips to a persistence store whether that be a relational database, object database, or flat file. Autofetch is a library which integrates with object persistence tools and automatically handles prefetching data. Using dynamic program profiling, Autofetch determines the right prefetch directives for each query a program executes.
For example, Autofetch integrates with Hibernate to eliminate the need for the programmer to specify fetch directives in queries and laziness in entity mappings. Autofetch currently only integrates with Hibernate. However, we are interested in integrating with other object persistence technologies including object databases and other object relation mappers.
Autofetch was developed at the University of Texas at Austin by Ali Ibrahim for research by Ali Ibrahim and William Cook. An initial implementation was used for a paper submission to the ECOOP conference in 2006. Subsequently it was rearchitected and improved for open source release. Autofetch is licensed under the LGPL license.
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