Hallo,

In our project we use many session factories to connect to different data sources but they all contain exactly the same schema. Unfortunately on 32 bit machines it can take up to 30 seconds to initialize and load a SessionFactory which is unacceptable and we are trying methods to improve this.

Would it be possible to simply clone a hibernate session factory with exactly the same schema information so that we can then simply change the properties like database name and host? Or this is not supported at all?

Unfortunatelly after the invocation of buildSessionFactory even if we can clone the session factory there are not methods like setHost and setDatabaseName or even setJdbcURL? Are there any other alternatives to speed up session factory loading apart from caching XML descriptor files (we already tried that).

Thank you for support.