Why is EhCacheProvider deprecated?

Question

I am configuring my hibernate project to use a 2nd-level cache provider, so that I can take advantage of query caching.

I added a dependency to ehcache:

Answer 1

if you wish to use Hibernate 4.0.0.Final. for the value of hibernate.cache.region.factory_class property use:

• org.hibernate.cache.ehcache.SingletonEhCacheRegionFactory instead of net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.SingletonEhCacheRegionFactory and
• org.hibernate.cache.ehcache.EhCacheRegionFactory instead of net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.EhCacheRegionFactory

Otherwise you will end up with some internal ClassNotFound exceptions