Spring Roo project as batch job without transactions?

Even if your changes are idempotent, you still will need transaction.

I have experienced exactly the same performance problem with a Spring / Hibernate batch process. Note that this has nothing to do with Spring Roo or even Spring - it is due to the workings of Hibernate / JPA.

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