I'm planning to use ehcache-2.10.1 in my Java project that already has hibernate-4.1.4 as a dependency. How do I get rid of possible conflict?

Here's the problem. Hibernate-4.1.4 has ehcache-core-2.4.3 that I just can't exclude easily (we don't use Maven...) and I'm not sure if just leaving it as is would cause a conflict with ehcache-2.10.1.

If worse comes to worst, I may opt to exclude ehcache-core-2.4.3 from hibernate and manually include ehcache-2.10.1 to my build path - however, I'm not sure if ehcache-2.10.1 will be compatible with hibernate 4.1.4.

As stated earlier, I've observed that hibernate-4.1.4 comes with ehcache-core-2.4.3... I'll be fine to stick with that version of ehcache, however, they don't have documentation for that version in the ehcache website.

Any other alternative solution?

The newer EHCache versions should be backward compatible with the previous releases, and Hibernate and EHCache interact through an API that ensures backward compatibility too.

Hi,

After going through the following links, it looks like we might run into some version compatibility issues with EhCache.

See if these links help in taking a decision regarding Hibernate and Ehcache version compatibility.

https://jsoftbiz.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/hibernate-4-and-ehcache-higher-than-2-4-3/

Refer to "Building with Maven" section in http://www.ehcache.org/generated/2.9.0/pdf/Integrations.pdf which says


Having said that, I am currently using Hibernate 5.0.4 with ehcache 2.10.1 in my sample projects and have not faced any issues so far. The ehcache version bundled with hibernate 5.0.4 is ehcache-core2.4.3.

-Madhu.