This chapter contains recommendations of how to use TopLink Grid with byte code weaving and lazy loading:
Byte code weaving is a technique for changing the byte code of compiled Java classes. You can configure byte code weaving to enable a number of EclipseLink JPA performance optimizations, including support for the lazy loading of one-to-one and many-to-one relationships, attribute-level change tracking, and fetch groups.
Weaving can be performed either dynamically when entity classes are loaded, or statically as part of the build process. Static byte code weaving can be incorporated into an Ant build using the weaver task provided by EclipseLink.
Dynamic byte code weaving is automatically enabled in Java EE 5-compliant application servers such as Oracle WebLogic. However, in Java SE it must be explicitly enabled by using the JRE 1.5 javaagent JVM command line argument. See "How to Configure Dynamic Weaving for JPA Entities Using the EclipseLink Agent" at the following URL for more information about dynamic byte code weaving for JRE 1.5.
To enable byte code weaving in a Coherence cache server, the Java VM should be invoked with -javaagent:<PATH>\eclipselink.jar. Java SE client applications should be run with the -javaagent argument.
See "Using EclipseLink JPA Weaving" at Eclipsepedia for more information on configuring and disabling static and dynamic byte code weaving.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Using_EclipseLink_JPA_Extensions_(ELUG)#Using_EclipseLink_JPA_Weaving
Lazy loading is a technique used to defer the querying of objects from the database until they are required. This can reduce the amount of data loaded by an application and improve throughput. A TopLink Grid JPA or native ORM application should lazily load all relationships. Lazy loading is the default for one-to-many and many-to-many relationships in JPA, but is eager for one-to-one and many-to-one relationships. You must explicitly select lazy loading on these relationship types. For example, you can specify lazy loading as an attribute for many of the relationship annotations:
... @ManyToOne(fetch=FetchType.LAZY) private Publisher parent ...
For maximum efficiency, lazy loading should be specified for all one-to-one and many-to-one entity relationships that TopLink Grid stores in the Coherence cache. Lazy loading is implemented through byte code weaving in EclipseLink and must be enabled explicitly if not running in a Java EE 5-compliant application server. For more information, see "Changing Compiled Java Classes with Byte Code Weaving".