Every time Hibernate starts, I see the following line in the log:


As far as I can tell, I am not specifying a second-level cache provider in my configuration and I don't want to use one. Does this line indicate that the cache is turned on? And if so, how?

For what it's worth, I'm using Hibernate 2.1.6 with the Spring Framework 1.1.2. I don't see anything to indicate that Spring is enabling the cache, though.

Thanks.

EHCache is just the default provider (there is no way to switch to "no" provider). The cache however is not active unless you start <cache>ing persistent classes. All of this is documented in the reference documentation, chapter "Performance".