Hi All,
I am writing a web application that allows the users to browse many
listings of items available for them to order. The items hardly ever change
and rarely updated, so I need the item to be readily available and ready
at all time. I wrote a small basic caching mechanism but would like to
learn how to hook that up with Hibernate so that it does not get the
existing information from the database if it is already in the cache.
Right now there are 6000+ users and 5000+ items.


Thanks
Doug

net.sf.hibernate.UserType?

net.sf.hibernate.cache.Cache?

why not just use Hibernate's built-in caching??

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Gavin,
Thank you for the information. I did use JCS but the performance for bringing back the listd wrtr still quite slow but I'll revisit again with other alternatives very soon here. I was looking at SwarmCache but have not seen any configuration to have a permanent caching section using it.


Thank You

Doug