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

Can anyone tell me what’s the advantage of load() vs get() in Hibernate?

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Whats the advantage of load() vs get() in Hibernate?

load()	get()
Only use load() method if you are sure that the object exists.	If you are not sure that the object exist, then use one of get() methods.
load() method will throw an exception if the unique id is not found in the database.	get() method will return null if the unique id is not found in the database.
load() just returns a proxy by default and database won’t be hit until the proxy is first invoked.	get() will hit the database immediately.

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Proxy means, hibernate will prepare some fake object with given identifier value in the memory without hitting a database.

For Example:
If we call session.load(Student.class,new Integer(107));

hibernate will create one fake Student object [row] in the memory with id 107, but remaining properties of Student class will not even be initialized.

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