Hi guys. I'm just now beginning to play with the second-level cache stuff. I can of course see how to configure caching for my objects in their .hbm.xml mapping files, but what is the best practice if I want different cache strategies for different contexts? For example, in my public servlet, I might want some mostly immutable objects to be cached read-only. But in my command-line admin tool, I'd obviously not want a read-only cache.

Is this possible? Is it recommended? (e.g. different SessionFactories, perhaps in separate JVM's, accessing the same data store, perhaps with different caching strategies)

Cache strategy can also be specified in hibernate.cfg.xml, or by programmatically manipulating the Configuration objects.