Redis as Hibernate second level cache

Question

I have a crazy idea : use Redis as hibernate second cache level. Redis is an in-memory datastore, it supports replication, pipeline, etc.. The goal is to share the hibernate cac

Answer 1

Just found a github project on it. https://github.com/debop/hibernate-redis I think it's already done. It's missing some documentation. EDIT: Just found a better repository, with better documentation. https://github.com/Jongtae/hibernate-redis

After building and importing the library into your project, it's as simple as any second level cache.

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I'm thinking in using redis in some functionalities in the website I'm working on. Other interesting possibilities: distributed Locking, tomcat session manager.