How to configure second level cache in Hibernate 4.1.5 SP1?

Question

I have read other threads on here about this subject but none of the solutions work for me.

I tried putting this in my hibernate.cfg.xml:

Answer 1

Hope, it may be of some use to somebody (hibernate 4.x).

The excerpt from my spring configuration:

public Properties hibernateProperties() {
    Properties properties = new Properties();
    properties.setProperty("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", env.getProperty("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto"));
    properties.setProperty("hibernate.dialect", env.getProperty("hibernate.dialect"));
    properties.setProperty("hibernate.format_sql", "true");
    properties.setProperty("hibernate.generate_statistics", env.getProperty("hibernate.generate_statistics"));
    // second-level cache:
    properties.setProperty("hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache", "true");        
    properties.setProperty("hibernate.cache.region.factory_class", "org.hibernate.cache.EhCacheRegionFactory");
    properties.setProperty("net.sf.ehcache.configurationResourceName", env.getProperty("net.sf.ehcache.configurationResourceName"));
    return properties;
}

You must have 'org.hibernate:hibernate-ehcache:HIBERNATE_VERSION' on your classpath.

See: Ehcache doc on hibernate configuration