I want to use hibernate in a swing application without a server component beside the database.

So I need to turn off the caching mechanism complete in order to get always the newest data from the database. I tried to turn off by setting the hibernate configuration parameters:
<property name="hibernate.cache.use_query_cache">false</property>
<property name="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache">false</property>

Unfortunately this doesn't work, because if I test I didn't get new records in my second application which I have already added in my first application.

I also tried to call flush() after all calls but with the same result.

Can anybody help me?

You could always build a simple/custom cache provider/implementer that would in fact cache nothing - always return nulls so that items are looked up every time. Would also save the overhead of carrying one of the stock cache implementations around.

Just a thought...