Oliver Weiler [http://community.jboss.org/people/helpermethod] created the discussion "Understanding JBossCache - Caching an object graph with many associations" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/618113#618113 -------------------------------------------------------------- I'm trying to use JBossCache as a JPA/Hibernate 2nd level cache provider to cache repeatedly called queries. The queries return entities of a specific type, lets call it FooType. FooType looks like the following: @Entity(name = FooType) @Cache(usage = CacheConcurrencyStrategy.TRANSACTIONAL) public class FooType {   protected BarType barType;   @ManyToOne(targetEntity = BarType.class, cascade = { CascadeType.ALL })   BarType getBarType() {     return barType;   } } So, Footype has a many-to-one association. Now, when I call the query, only a very small part seems to be put in the cache. I think the reason is because I didn't mark the association with the @Cache tag. Am I correct? But the real question is: BarType also has a handful of associations, and these return objects which also provide associations and so on, building a big graph of associations. Now, do I need to a) annotate all of those classes and b) also annotate the associations in order for the whole query to be cached? -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/618113#618113] Start a new discussion in JBoss Cache at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]