It is possible to tell hibernate to use second level cache for all objects and all collections, without explicitly defining them all in config files?

For instance, I'd like to default cache everything with a 'read-write' strategy unless I explicitly call for something else.

My list of caching defs is getting long, and it's annoying to have to add to each time I create a new object or collection within an object just to get basic caching goodness.

Thanks!

Yes indeed. From section 19.2.1 of the ref docs: "Alternatively (preferrably?), you may specify <class-cache> and <collection-cache> elements in hibernate.cfg.xml." These settings are overridden by whatever you put in the <cache> element of a class or collection mapping.