Lazy Loading

By Amy Blankenship

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Wikipedia defines Lazy Loading as "a design pattern commonly used in computer programming to defer initialization of an object until the point at which it is needed." Typically, we do this to make an RIA application more responsive–since we're not pulling huge amounts of data from the back end at one time, the user doesn't have to wait as long for the call(s) to complete. In particular, this pattern is especially useful with hierarchical data sets (grandparent, parent, child, etc.) where the number of nesting levels might not be known at design time.

Advantages of Lazy Loading