What is the advantage of load() vs get() in Hibernate?

• Use get() when you want to load an object
• Use load() when you need to obtain a reference to the object without issuing extra SQL queries, for example, to create a relationship with another object:

Ex: if you are trying to load /get Empoyee object where empid=20. But assume record is not available in DB.

 Employee employee1 = session.load(Employee.class,20);  //Step-1
 system.out.println(employee1.getEmployeeId();       //Step-2  --o/p=20
 system.out.println(employee1.getEmployeeName();       //Step-3 -->O/P:ObjectNotFoundException

If you use load in step-1 hibernate wont fire any select query to fetch employee record from DB at this moment.At this pint hibernate gives a dummy object ( Proxy ). This dummy object doesnt contain anything. it is new Employee(20). you can verify this in step-2 it will print 20. but in step-3 we are trying to find employee information. so at this time hibernate fires a sql query to fetch Empoyee objct. If it is not found in DB.throws ObjectNotFoundException.

Employee employee2 = session.get(Employee.class,20);  //Step-4

for session.get() hibernate fires a sql query to fetch the data from db. so in our case id=20 not exists in DB. so it will return null.