Configuring Ehcache with JPA, Hibernate & Spring

This post details on the steps required to configure ehcache as the second level hibernate cache when jpa, hibernate and spring are used in combination

Configuring the cache

Add the below properties to the persistence.xml configuration file

<property name="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache" value="true"/>
<property name="hibernate.cache.use_query_cache" value="true"/>
<property name="hibernate.cache.provider_class" value="org.hibernate.cache.EhCacheProvider"/>
<property name="hibernate.generate_statistics" value="true"/>

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