How to speed up Batch Process

HI all

I want to speed up the processing time of my batch process which is taking hours for processing 10000+ records.I am using stateless session beans with DAO Beans to fetch\write Records in to data base .I use Prepared Statements for record insertion with more than 100 prepared statements for each record insertion.

Do we have any other technique to speed up insertion\fetching of data , is there any chance to process bulk data parallely as threads..

Can anyone help me out in implementating this.

Thanks in advance

kanna

I believe you are using something like statement.executeBatch().
Here what we do is sending a batch of insert querys to database at the same time.

If you are already using this way, pls provide a code snippet and data base table structure. We can work out then.