I have enabled second level cache using EHCache in Hibernate. I have a class Address (with a composite primary key consisiting of three columns) and other fields (four other fields). This class is mapped to db using Hibernate. Now I want to put all the rows in database into the cache so that I can use them afterwards.


1. When I use session.find() it puts all the rows in db into cache as net.sf.ehcache.Element and not as Address object. Every element has a key(corresponding to composite primary key above) and a value (consisiting of four other fields).

But the type of element that I am getting out of cache is of type Element and not my Address type.

How can I get Address object back?

Thanks

Ashish