terracotta

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: <dependency> <groupId>net.sf.ehcache</groupId> <artifactId>ehcache-core</artifactId> <version>2.2.0</version> </dependency> I think that the provider class I want to use is: net.sf.ehcache.hibernateEhCacheProvider When I look at the referenced libraries in eclipse, I see the @Deprecated annotation on EhCacheProvider , and also on SingletonEhCacheProvider . What gives? Is there an up-to-date replacement provider that I can use? I am using

Would it be a good idea to use Terracotta as a persistence solution (replacing a database)? I'm specifically wondering about data integrity issues and support for transactional systems. Terracotta is transactional (synchronized blocks form transactions of modified objects) but is not and doesn't want to be JTA-compliant. There is a fairly lengthy discussion of transactions and some common misconceptions about Terracotta here . I wrote a blog post about data lifetimes and how that should frame your thinking about identifying opportunities for the use of Terracotta. In short, Terracotta's sweet