I wanted to use jboss cache as my 2nd level cache. I am using hibernate as my persistence layer. I have created my entities and now want to access them via the cache. I have gone through a lot of jboss cache & hibernate documentation but I am still not getting my hands on it.
I have configured in my persistence.xml the following:
<property name="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache" value="true" />
<property name ="hibernate.cache.provider_class" value = "org.hibernate.cache.OptimisticTreeCacheProvider"/>

I am not able to make out how to link it with jboss cache. I mean how do I invoke jboss cache and tell my hibernate to use the particular cache..
Another thing, do I have to write my jboss cache client code separately and invoke cache via cache factory etc using its API or is there some cache provider implementation available?
Thanks in advance for any help.

If I understand correctly you already have a JBossCache somehow running in your system and you want hibernate to use the same one instead of creating a new instance. In this case have you looked at http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HB-1396?


You can also extend the original cache provider class and do your custom thing in there.



Farzad-