Hello guys,

I'm using Hibernate 4.2.18 and I want to add Infinispan as a second level cache provider. I also don't want to use JTA transactions neither CMTTransactions. I am using JdbcTransactionFactory.
I see that in Hibernate 5 it is possible without any special configuration, however in Hibernate 4.2.18 infinispan-configs.xml defines every transaction property as TRANSACTIONAL. With these settings I can't even create SessionFactory since it throws an exception that it can't find TransactionManager.
One solution I found is to provide a custom configuration file which is a copy of the one in hibernate-infinispan module with changed all TRANSACTIONAL to NON_TRANSACTIONAL. But I'm not sure if it is going to work properly. What should I do?

Thank you in advance your your answers.

In Hibernate 5, the infinispan-configs.xml file contains the following transaction config:



Try to see if it works. If it doesn't, then you should upgrade to Hibernate 5 since 4.x is no longer supported.

It works. I mean SessionFactory is created with these setting and there are some puts and hits to the 2nd level cache. However, I'm not sure if it's safe and stable. For example, what would happen if I want to run Hibernate and Infinispan with such a config on JBoss maybe more than one instance in cluster? The system works in production and does not use JTA neither CMT and won't unless it's absolutely necessary.
Upgrading Hibernate to newer version is not a solution, because we have currently JBoss 6 and it supports JPA 2.0 and Hibernate 4.2.18.

In this case, you are better off asking this question on the Infinispan forum and on the JBoss forum since they surely know better the answer to your question.