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Ans. It's a feature to lazily initialize dependencies , relationship and associations from the Database. Any related references marked as @OneToMany or @ManyToMany are loaded lazily i.e when they are accessed and not when the parent is loaded.
Ans. JDBC is a standard Java Api for Database communication whereas Hibernate is an ORM framework that uses JDBC to connect with Database.
Hibernate is another layer of object table mapping over JDBC that provide a database independent, object oriented and an efficient way of database communication.
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