Hi,
when an EntityManagerFactory is created, the classpath is scanned for all relevant entities. All relevant prepared statements are then created.

Is there anyway of delaying the creation of any of these prepared statements?

Reason I ask is because if you have a large domain model e.g. 500 entities, the EntityManagerFactory creation time can be quite long.

Kind Rgds

Not at the moment unfortunately.

ok, thanks for getting back to me.

Actually, I don't think Hibernate create the preparestatements in advance, it certainly prepare the SQL string in advance though

That's interesting. I suppose from the application point of view there is still a little bit of overhead in creating the strings. Anymore details on this would be great. Also if the hibernate team have any plans for adding any configuration options it would be great if you let us know.

Probably in 4.0, not before