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

This link helped me for using second level cache with Hibernate 4

Answer 2

Try this:

<prop key="hibernate.cache.use_query_cache">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.max_fetch_depth">4</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.cache.use_query_cache">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.cache.region.factory_class">net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.EhCacheRegionFactory</prop>

And if you are using Maven add this to your POM file:

<dependency>
  <groupId>net.sf.ehcache</groupId>
  <artifactId>ehcache-core</artifactId>
  <version>2.3.0</version>
</dependency>

Or download the latest jar from http://ehcache.org/

Answer 3

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.