hi !

is there a specific reason, why hibernate does not permit the caching of subclasses ?

thx

It does.

not sure you did understand my question.

I have the following class-tree:

Party <- Organization <- Company

(of course only a small fraction of the tree)

i only want to cache companies but not all kind of parties. when i specify <class-cache class="....Company" usage="nonstrict-read-write"/>

in my hibernate.cfg.xml, i get an exception telling me that only root class caching is allowed !

for my application being able to only cache companies is essential

Well, thats different. You want to cache /only/ the subclass. This is not supported. Quite reasonably, IMO.

hmmm - do you mean it's reasonably to not support it - or that it would be reasonably to support it ?

i think that once you have complex models - a party model is i think one of those - you have to be able to cache only parts of your model. in my case companies get updated only once in a while - other parts of the party model instead more often.

but ok - i will try to live with this *feature* - somehow.