HI
I'm working on porting my existing application running in client specific to Hibernate . i was done mostly with that application but i have my own concerns regarding the performance of that .
what are all the areas in need to concentrate on doing this .

how to do session management ?
when to use first level caching/ second level caching .

I have more finders than update .

can u guys throw some hint on this ..

Thanks
Balaji

Have you look at http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/reference/en/html/performance.html?

Etienne.

I found it is better to tune database first: indexes, mviews, clusters, partitions, ... This kind of optimizations are easy to maintain and do not need any code. Well tuned databases are very fast, but "Fetching strategies" on client are very important too, database can not help to solve N+1 query problems or to avoid OutOfMemoryError.