Enabling Hibernate second-level cache with JPA on JBoss 4.2

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What are the steps required to enable Hibernate's second-level cache, when using the Java Persistence API (annotated entities)? How do I check that it's working? I'm using JBoss 4.2.2.GA.

From the Hibernate documentation, it seems that I need to enable the cache and specify a cache provider in persistence.xml, like:

<property name="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache"
          value="true" /> 
<property name="hibernate.cache.provider_class" 
          value="org.hibernate.cache.HashtableCacheProvider" />

What else is required? Do I need to add @Cache annotations to my JPA entities?

How can I tell if the cache is working? I have tried accessing cache statistics after running a Query, but Statistics.getSecondLevelCacheStatistics returns null, perhaps because I don't know what 'region' name to use.

Peter Hilton · Accepted Answer · 2008-09-10 15:32:20Z

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Follow-up: in the end, after adding annotations, I have it working with EhCache, i.e.

<property name="hibernate.cache.provider_class" 
          value="net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.EhCacheProvider" />

answered Sep 10, 2008 at 15:32

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Ted Pennings Over a year ago

Note that in Hibernate 3.3+, this parameter is now hibernate.cache.region.factory_class and not what's above. Adding this for posterity ;)

Tim Howland · Accepted Answer · 2008-09-10 13:10:03Z

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I believe you need to add the cache annotations to tell hibernate how to use the second-level cache (read-only, read-write, etc). This was the case in my app (using spring / traditional hibernate and ehcache, so your mileage may vary). Once the caches were indicated, I started seeing messages that they were in use from hibernate.

answered Sep 10, 2008 at 13:10

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