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

The EhCache docs say that from Hibernate 3.3 onward you should use:

    net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.EhCacheRegionFactory

(or net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.SingletonEhCacheRegionFactory)