if you read the article carefully you see what causes the 'problem' anonymous wrote : the GetTaskListCommand does a retrieveTaskInstanceDetails for each element in the list retrieving everything again and again. Standard hibernate behaviour some might say. So without looking into the code it for me is not a problem of the error, or hibernate but in the getTaskListCommand (and yes that is jBPM) So you *should* believe all propaganda, but help to optimize it instead of creating new code yourself. If he had contributed a 'getTaskListCommandWithoutDetails' or whatever, it would probably have been included. Unfortunately, some don't and just 'rant' peace.... View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4223003#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...