Why is Hibernate Open Session in View considered a bad practice?

Question

And what kind of alternative strategies do you use for avoiding LazyLoadExceptions?

I do understand that open session in view has issues with:

• Layered

Answer 1

This won't help too much but you can check my topic here: * Hibernate Cache1 OutOfMemory with OpenSessionInView

I have some OutOfMemory issues because of OpenSessionInView and a lot of entities loaded, because they stay in Hibernate cache level1 and are not garbage collected (i load a lot of entities with 500 items per page, but all entities stay in cache)