You should use setMaxResults() / setFirstResult(), don't suck up the entire result list in one Hibernate query. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3959269#3959269 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3959269