On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Pinaki Poddar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, >> connection being thrown away after I finish a transaction and close the >> EntityManager. > > ConnectionRetainMode 'always' retains the connection *until* the > EntityManager closes. Once you close the EntityManager, the connection will > return to the pool for obvious reasons.
Ok. It's not what I was expecting since by default Hibernate keeps a sleeping connection to the database after EntityManger#close and EclipseLink keeps seven(!) connections. So if I want this functionality with OpenJPA, I must setup pooling?
