Note that you can make an OpenJPA EntityManager be thread-safe (i.e., sharable across multiple threads) by setting the openjpa.Multithreaded option to true.
-Patrick On Jan 2, 2008 2:12 PM, Gokhan Ergul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In terms randomness, I can think of two possibilities off the top of my > head: 1. you might be using timer tasks (i.e. java.util.Timer of sth to > that effect) which perform some operations on a pre-allocated > EntityManager upon expiration, 2. you might be using some library with > which you register callback interfaces and the library invokes your > methods from a different thread. If you can tell us how you create & > dispose of EntityManagers, it'll help spotting the problem. > > About your pooling questions: OpenJPA does not have a built-in > connection pool, but you can plug javax.sql.DataSource compliant > connection pools (such as http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/) via > |openjpa|.ConnectionFactory configuration. And there's no thread-pooling > in JDBC layer. > > > Marc Siegel wrote: > > Hi Gokhan, > > > > Well we may be on the right track here. > > > > My application is single-threaded, I never create any threads. Does > > that lead to any other thoughts of where threading may intrude > > periodically and seemingly randomly? Is there connection pooling / > > threadpooling in the JDBC layer of openjpa? > > > > -Marc > > > > -- Patrick Linskey 202 669 5907