Hi

I would like to use cache but I don't know which cache strategy to use. What are the differences between the four cache strategies? I've read the Hibernate References but I am not fully understand.

Let say I have an article table which contains a list of articles for my website. New articles are inserted frequently and occasionally some of these articles get edited. Should I use 'read-write'? If I use this strategy and when new article is added, will Hibernate refresh the cache?

I am using Struts, OSCache, PostgreSQL 7.4.1 and Hibernate 2.1.2

Is something wrong with my question? Surely, it's not that hard to answer such question.

One quick answer is, do you need *any* cache? Is the lack of caching a bottleneck for your app?

I agree that the cache documentation could use some work. (oh, for the book!) I don't actually know what cache setting to recommend.

Cheers,
Rob