Hibernate second level cache with Spring

Question

I\'m using Spring + JPA + Hibernate. I\'m trying to enable Hibernate\'s second level cache. In my Spring\'s applicationContext.xml I have:

Answer 1

I didn't answer this, but it's not obvious that the poster found the answer himself. I'm reposting his answer:

Resolved

Since I'm using LocalEntityManagerFactoryBean it gets its settings from META-INF/persistence.xml. My settings in applicationContext.xml weren't even being read.