Hi,

Is there an easy-to-use, open-source 2nd level cache for hibernate which works well in clustered environments?
Scalability is no real concern, the cluster only consists of two machines - but its not possible to run server-processes like terracotta or a memcache-daemon.

The three alternatives I know are:
- EHCache (requires a teracotta-server running)
- Memcached (requires a memcache-server)
- SwarmCache (optimal, but seems dead so far).

How well does Swarmcache work? Is it still compatible with latest versions of Hibernate?

Thank you in advance, Clemens

EhCache does NOT require Terracotta. It is just one optional possible configuration for it.

We are using EhCache with regular over-the-network synchronization using RMI.

So you simply configure the other server's ip/port and thats it?
Therefor it can run inside a application-server without any further dependencies to the environment?

Would be great :)

Thanks, Clemens