Is it hibernate or some other issue? (Slow processing)

Question

This method take 14sec to complete, only got 16 raw of data.
public static List getOffersToApprove() {
        //AuthorityApproval aa = null;
        List result = null;
        Session sess = null;
        try {
            sess = Waterfind.getSessionFactory().openSession();
        } catch (net.sf.hibernate.HibernateException e) {
            logger.error("Error opening hibernate session", e);
        try {
            result = sess.find("from com.wf.AuthorityApproval aa "
                         + " where aa.checkForm = true "
                         + " and (aa.checkType is null or aa.checkType = false) "
                         + " order by aa.datePlaced");
        } catch (Exception e) {
            logger.error("Error getting offers to approve", e);
            try {
                sess.close();
            } catch (net.sf.hibernate.HibernateException ee) {
                logger.warn("Exception closing session", ee);
        if (sess != null) {
            try {
                sess.close();
            } catch (net.sf.hibernate.HibernateException e) {
                logger.warn("Exception closing session");
        return result;
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
    "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 2.0//EN"
    "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-2.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping>
    <class name="com.wf.AuthorityApproval" table="WATERFIND_AUTHORITY_APPROVAL">
        <id name="id" type="long">
            <generator class="native"/>
        </id> 
          <many-to-one name="waterOffer" class="com.wf.WaterOffer">
               <column name="wateroffer"/>
          </many-to-one>
        <many-to-one name="waterfindCheck" class="com.wf.WaterfindUser">
            <column name="waterfind_check"/>
        </many-to-one>
          <property name="datePlaced" type="calendar">
               <column name="waterfind_dateplaced"/>
          </property>
          <property name="approveType" type="boolean">
               <column name="approve_type"/>
          </property>
          <property name="checkType" type="boolean">
               <column name="check_type"/>
          </property>  
          <property name="checkForm" type="boolean">
               <column name="check_form"/>
          </property>
    </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

Answer 1

Looks fine to me. Try running the query (in SQL) directly on the database and see how long it takes. You could also try using JDBC. That will at least tell you if Hibernate is slowing you down. Maybe Hibernate 3.0 would be better too. That uses this doctype.
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">When I started using Hibernate, my database performance improved because I could use lazy, greedy or other types of loading. I can't imagine it doing anything bad in this case because you don't have any sets.