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Is getting this Ceritification from Broadcom still worth it? The exam targets Spring Boot 2.7 and Spring 5.3 while the most current major versions of the framework are 4.x and 7.x.

Do any other certifications exist that are more up to date with the current Spring Boot and Spring versions?

Hi, everyone. I don't have too much experience, and I'd really appreciate your guidance on this

Based on your experience with Spring Boot and ORM, what fetch type would you recommend for a large project with many entities and numerous nested relationships?

I ALREADY KNOW THIS

• Eager will fetch all data from all nested entities

• Lazy just load on demand

• I know that we must always return DTO's with only the necessary fields using SQL queries.

But when it comes to specifying the fetch type within a Java class, I'd like to know the best practice for specifying the fetch type:

Is it better to always set the relationship as LAZY and never use EAGER?

@type_of_relantionship(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
private Entity myEntity; // it has nested entites
            |
            |          @type_of_relantionship(fetch = FetchType.LAZY) 
            |__________Entity subEntity 
                 
            //more relantionships...

vs 

@type_of_relantionship(fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
private Entity myEntity; // it has nested entites
            |
            |          @type_of_relantionship(fetch = FetchType.EAGER) 
            |__________Entity subEntity 
                 
            //more relantionships...

Thanks in advance