Hibernate in a cluster

erik.jogi · **Posted:** Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:44 am

Hello,

We have a SLSB (in Weblogic) that is using Hibernate underneath. Now we want to cluster that SLSB. Not for performance considerations but more for reliability concerns.

My question is: what is the simplest thing we have to change in Hibernate config to get the cluster to work properly. As peformance is not an issue right now and we do not have any experience yet, I was wondering if this could be initially accomplished without any of the third-party cluster-aware cache packages?

gavin · **Posted:** Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:28 am

HIbernate is just like any other JDBC client. If you disable the second-level cache, it scales horizontally without any special configuration.

erik.jogi · **Posted:** Thu Jan 29, 2004 4:41 pm

If I don't specify anything in the properties, then hibernate reports at startup:

Code:

cache provider: net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.Provider

Does this mean that if I don't specify any <cache> element in my mappings then this ehcache is not used actually?

michael · **Posted:** Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:24 pm