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PAGE!On 30 Dec 2003 17:06, dominikroblek wrote:

>We are successfully using Hibernate with Oracle JDBC driver with
>prepared statement cache enabled. We had to raise open cursor limit in
>Oracle database as each cached prepared statement keeps one open
cursor
>on the database. Ask you DBA for assistance.

I am having a similar problem - open cursors are not being cleared.  
Did you get over your issue?