As another Hibernate cache provider also aiming to be "the best Hibernate second level cache provider" out there, I would be a bit upset by having one anointed in the code as the default. Thank you Steve and Emmanuel for being the voice of reason. Alex Miller Terracotta/Ehcache On 09/09/2009 17:35 PM, Galder Zamarreno wrote: > Steve, taking in account that at least in the community version you ship > a few different cache providers (correct me if I'm wrong), what about > putting something in the Hibernate docs where you recommend using > Infinispan? i.e. "Infinispan is the recommended 2LC provider"