Thank you very much for the help and information. >From what i understand, openjpa.ConnectionRetainMode="always" made a big difference.
I understand any ORM has an overhead.. i just wanted to know if my initial results were reasonable which appeared not to be and now look much better :-) I'm using DBCP's statements pooling so i guess its the same as creating one statement in JDBC. Thanks, Idan -- View this message in context: http://openjpa.208410.n2.nabble.com/OpenJPA-MySQL-performance-overhead-tp5279410p5293141.html Sent from the OpenJPA Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.