first of all, you have to read this 2 articles about performance in hibernate: http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/en/html/performance.html Especially, chapter 19.2. The Second Level Cache. And http://docs.jboss.org/ejb3/app-server/HibernateAnnotations/reference/en/h... Then you should try to make your entity cachable by adding @Cache annotation with needed "usage" parameter . Also try to set up "cacheable" property of the query. (there are several ways to make it, one of them is to set up global hibernate property hibernate.cache.use_query_cache) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4108708#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...