Ilan - I did some perf testing / profiling today and came across another property that should help out quite a lot.
property-3=<property name="openjpa.ConnectionRetainMode" value="always"/> The net of this property is that each EntityManager will keep a connection open to the DB as long as it is alive. Note to anyone else reading this post: This property shouldn't be used in a container managed environment as EntityManagers can bee pooled and in turn connections will never be closed. Let me know how it goes. Thanks for all of the hard work! Rick
