Is it possible to disable the Session-level cache, and just rely on the SessionFactory-level cache (JCS)?

I am trying to setup Hibernate in a configuration where multiple Sessions can read from the same cache. This is obviously not possible with the Session-level cache, since it is not shared between Sessions. However it is possible with the JCS cache, since it is used by the SessionFactory.

I can accomplish this by simply creating a new Session every time I access Hibernate objects, thusly never allowing a given Session to respond to my queries with Session-level cache data. But I am hoping to avoid doing this by simply disabling the Session-level cache. I imagine there is also a good bit of overhead involved in creating so many Sessions.

There doesn't appear to be a method on the Session interface to disable its cache. If there were a method Session.evict(Class), I could probably get by, but there is only Session.evict(Object).

Any thoughts, or perhaps alternate approaches?

Thanks,
Keith

There is Session.clear() ?

I don't see a Session.clear() in the API docs on the website. Is this in a newer version of hibernate perhaps? I'm using 2.0.3.

Thanks,
Keith

yeah, its 2.1