ehcache

net.sf.ehcache.hibernate
Class SingletonEhCacheProvider

java.lang.Object
  extended by net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.SingletonEhCacheProvider
All Implemented Interfaces:
org.hibernate.cache.CacheProvider

public final class SingletonEhCacheProvider
extends java.lang.Object
implements org.hibernate.cache.CacheProvider

Singleton cache Provider plugin for Hibernate 3.2 and ehcache-1.2. New in this provider is support for non Serializable keys and values. This provider works as a Singleton. No matter how many Hibernate Configurations you have, only one ehcache CacheManager is used. See EhCacheProvider for a non-singleton implementation.

Ehcache-1.2 also has many other features such as cluster support and listeners, which can be used seamlessly simply by configurion in ehcache.xml.

Use hibernate.cache.provider_class=net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.SingletonEhCacheProvider in the Hibernate configuration to enable this provider for Hibernate's second level cache.

Updated for ehcache-1.2. Note this provider requires ehcache-1.2.jar. Make sure ehcache-1.1.jar or earlier is not in the classpath or it will not work.

See http://ehcache.sf.net for documentation on ehcache

Version:
$Id: SingletonEhCacheProvider.java 612 2008-05-07 22:48:26Z gregluck $
Author:
Greg Luck, Emmanuel Bernard

Field Summary
static java.lang.String NET_SF_EHCACHE_CONFIGURATION_RESOURCE_NAME
          The Hibernate system property specifying the location of the ehcache configuration file name.
 
Constructor Summary
SingletonEhCacheProvider()
           
 
Method Summary
 org.hibernate.cache.Cache buildCache(java.lang.String name, java.util.Properties properties)
          Builds a Cache.
 boolean isMinimalPutsEnabledByDefault()
          Not sure what this is supposed to do.
 long nextTimestamp()
          Returns the next timestamp.
 void start(java.util.Properties properties)
          Callback to perform any necessary initialization of the underlying cache implementation during SessionFactory construction.
 void stop()
          Callback to perform any necessary cleanup of the underlying cache implementation during SessionFactory.close().
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Field Detail

NET_SF_EHCACHE_CONFIGURATION_RESOURCE_NAME

public static final java.lang.String NET_SF_EHCACHE_CONFIGURATION_RESOURCE_NAME
The Hibernate system property specifying the location of the ehcache configuration file name.

If set to say ehcache-1.xml, ehcache-1.xml will be looked for in the root of the classpath.

See Also:
Constant Field Values
Constructor Detail

SingletonEhCacheProvider

public SingletonEhCacheProvider()
Method Detail

buildCache

public final org.hibernate.cache.Cache buildCache(java.lang.String name,
                                                  java.util.Properties properties)
                                           throws org.hibernate.cache.CacheException
Builds a Cache.

Even though this method provides properties, they are not used. Properties for EHCache are specified in the ehcache.xml file. Configuration will be read from ehcache.xml for a cache declaration where the name attribute matches the name parameter in this builder.

Specified by:
buildCache in interface org.hibernate.cache.CacheProvider
Parameters:
name - the name of the cache. Must match a cache configured in ehcache.xml
properties - not used
Returns:
a newly built cache will be built and initialised
Throws:
org.hibernate.cache.CacheException - inter alia, if a cache of the same name already exists

nextTimestamp

public final long nextTimestamp()
Returns the next timestamp.

Specified by:
nextTimestamp in interface org.hibernate.cache.CacheProvider

start

public final void start(java.util.Properties properties)
                 throws org.hibernate.cache.CacheException
Callback to perform any necessary initialization of the underlying cache implementation during SessionFactory construction.

Specified by:
start in interface org.hibernate.cache.CacheProvider
Parameters:
properties - current configuration settings.
Throws:
org.hibernate.cache.CacheException

stop

public void stop()
Callback to perform any necessary cleanup of the underlying cache implementation during SessionFactory.close().

Specified by:
stop in interface org.hibernate.cache.CacheProvider

isMinimalPutsEnabledByDefault

public final boolean isMinimalPutsEnabledByDefault()
Not sure what this is supposed to do.

Specified by:
isMinimalPutsEnabledByDefault in interface org.hibernate.cache.CacheProvider
Returns:
false to be safe

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