Have a look at this thread:
http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4218569
Does it make sense to enforce READ_COMMITTED for the Hibernate 2nd Level Cache provider for JBC3, if MVCC is used?
Cheers
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Manik Surtani
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