Thanks for the reply... unfortunately, if I close the context every time (with the finally clause) the performance is terrible... I thought that maybe I could have the context get closed by spring as soon as the entire transaction is finished.... there are some cases where the context gets opened 5/6 times for a single request.. :( View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4201901#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...