Do JPA 2.1's Entity Graphs carry out/make redundant the functionality of EclipseLink's Fetch/Load Groups?

Question

EclipseLink has extension functionality, namely fetch and load groups which allow finer control over the fetching and loading of data from a datastore in comparison to the standard JPA 2.0 capabilities.

Now, in JPA 2.1, entity graphs seem to provide similar functionality.

Do entity graphs effectively make EclipseLink's fetch and load group extensions redundant in JPA 2.1?

Answer 1

My understanding was that Entity graphs are the JPA's way of exposing EclipseLink's attribute groups. The native attribute groups can expose more of the underlying functionality.