What are the Maven dependencies to use hibernate, hibernate annotations, and ehcache?

Question

I would like to update my Maven pom.xml with the latest hibernate, hibernate-annotations, and ehcache dependencies.

I read the hibernate download page and the ehcache do

Answer 1

If you really mean the ultimate versions of hibernate-annotations (and not hibernate-entitymanager) and ehcache, then you'll need the following:

  ...
  
    
      org.hibernate
      hibernate-core
      3.6.0.Final
    
    
       net.sf.ehcache
       ehcache-core
       2.2.0
   
   ...
  

  
    
      repository.jboss.org-public
      JBoss repository
      https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public
    
  
  ...

As of Hibernate 3.6, JDK 1.4 support has been dropped and the Hibernate Annotations have been merged back into Core.

I you meant Hibernate EntityManager, then replace hibernate-core by hibernate-entitymanager in the above snippet.

Regarding EHCache, ehcache-core should provide everything you need (including implementations of the "new" Hibernate 3.3/3.5 caching SPI with its CacheRegionFactory). So, as documented:

Setting Ehcache as the Hibernate Second Level Cache

Hibernate 3.3 and higher

ATTENTION HIBERNATE 3.2 USERS

Make sure to note the change to BOTH the property name and value.

Use:

          net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.EhCacheRegionFactory

for instance creation, or

          net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.SingletonEhCacheRegionFactory

to force Hibernate to use a singleton of Ehcache CacheManager.

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Follow-up: To answer your update:

sl4j threw errors, which went away by adding (...)

Well, I can't guess what logging framework you're using, providing the binding of your choice was left as an exercise for the reader :)

There are many instances of this warning (...)

I get only one WARNING when running in a non JTA environment. If that's your case (a non JTA environment), I would consider the WARNING as normal. If that's not your case, have a look at the documentation about JTA.

Additionally, this error makes everything fail

This is somehow a different question (but it looks like the SessionFactory fails to initialize properly, activate logging to see why) and I suggest to post a new spring specific question.