Configuring Hibernate Second-Level Cache

Code Sample: See the sample application for Hibernate 2nd Level Cache configuration.

If you are using Hibernate with Hazelcast as a second level cache provider, you can easily configure your LocalSessionFactoryBean to use a Hazelcast instance by passing Hazelcast instance name. That way, you can use the same HazelcastInstance as Hibernate L2 cache instance.

xml

...
<bean id="sessionFactory"
      class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean"
	  scope="singleton">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
    <property name="hibernateProperties">
        <props>
            ...
            <prop key="hibernate.cache.region.factory_class">com.hazelcast.hibernate.HazelcastLocalCacheRegionFactory</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.cache.hazelcast.instance_name">${hz.instance.name}</prop>
        </props>
    </property>
    ...
</bean>

Hibernate RegionFactory Classes

• com.hazelcast.hibernate.HazelcastLocalCacheRegionFactory
• com.hazelcast.hibernate.HazelcastCacheRegionFactory

See the Configuring RegionFactory section in the Hazelcast Hibernate GitHub repository for more information.