Dear Hibernate users,

I use the second level cache for 15 different classes, which are mostly read-only cached, within a rich client application. The mapping configuration is serialized and the session factory is built quite fast at startup. But: The time consuming part is the configuration of the second level cache which takes up nearly 20 seconds for the mentioned 15 classes.

Is there a way to shorten the cache configuration time? I tried every cache configuration (disk/memory, eternal life or timeouts) but none reduced the configuration time.

Stefan

Hibernate version: 3.0.1

Name and version of the database you are using: hsqldb

Is there really no possibility to speed up the cache mapping and startup?