Hibernate 2nd level cache invalidation when another process modifies the database

Question

We have an application that uses Hibernate\'s 2nd level caching to avoid database hits.

I was wondering if there is some easy way to invalidate the Java application

Answer 1

Both hibernate and JPA now provide direct access to the underlying 2nd level cache:

sessionFactory.getCache().evict(..);
entityManager.getCache().evict(..)