Cache Provider plugin for Hibernate 3.2 and ehcache-1.2. New in this provider are ehcache support for multiple Hibernate session factories, each with its own ehcache configuration, and non Serializable keys and values. Ehcache-1.2 also has many other features such as cluster support and listeners, which can be used seamlessly simply by configurion in ehcache.xml.

Use hibernate.cache.provider_class=net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.EhCacheProvider in the Hibernate configuration to enable this provider for Hibernate's second level cache.

When configuring multiple ehcache CacheManagers, as you would where you have multiple Hibernate Configurations and multiple SessionFactories, specify in each Hibernate configuration the ehcache configuration using the property net.sf.ehcache.configurationResourceName An example to set an ehcach configuration called ehcache-2.xml would be net.sf.ehcache.configurationResourceName=/ehcache-2.xml. If the leading slash is not there one will be added. The configuration file will be looked for in the root of the classpath.

Updated for ehcache-1.2. Note this provider requires ehcache-1.2.jar. Make sure ehcache-1.1.jar or earlier is not in the classpath or it will not work.

See http://ehcache.org for documentation on ehcache