Hi,

Does Hibernate has it own Cache framework? Or should I should some kind of cache framework on top of hibernate for performance sake.

And which cache framework works best with Hibernate?
I know there are 2 open source ones available:
- JCS
- OScache

Thanks.

2.1 has a pluggable cache interface. In either case, there is no need to put anything on top of HIbernate, it's all built in and configurable through the Hibernate config files. The default cache is JSC which I've used and works fine for me, but I deploy on only one server. Using the JSC cache increase performance an order of magnitude on my project.

Thanks for your quick response. Is there any example for configure the cache inside the hibernate?

Thanks.

If you look in the src distribution there is an example of using cache.ccf and the <jcs-cache>. Caching is much better in 2.1, I'd suggest using 2.1 beta and consulting the new dtd's in the distribution, it's pretty clear from reading those what you should do.