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

I think your idea is great.
I saw a hibernate 2nd level cache provider for memcached. Maybe it can help you also (i.e - get some ideas from it for working with redis?)
I would appreciate if you can open source this work on github or googlecode or any other place.