Greetings !

Im testing Hibernate for my company and have several questions
abouts its caching capabilities.

1.Does Hibernate support servers-farm cache ?
2.Does it support multi-servers-farm cache ? (global orginization cache).
3.Can Hibernate be used for client caching ? (sit on the client station and be used as local caching).
4.Someone told me that Hibernate has difficulties handling several threads accessing and modifing the same object at once. Is it true ?
Is it mutli-threading supportive ?

ill be glad if you could reference me for hilights in the documentation in those issues.

Thank you very much for your support !

1,2 - Hibernate does not implement much of the caching part, it only delegates to a cache provider so you just need to find the right solution. ehcache and JBoss cache have very promising models for distributed and clustered environments.

3 - Yes if there is a database on the client side.

4- No it is not or I haven't heard or experienced anything like this. The problems usually boil down to transaction and classic db concurrency and racing problems. If you can it in a relational database, you can do it in hibernate too.




Farzad-