[infinispan-dev] Fwd: [hibernate-dev] Spring Cache Abstraction

[Galder Zamarreño]

Interesting discussion going on in the Hibernate-dev list about what Spring are doing caching wise:

This is rooted in: http://blog.springsource.com/2011/02/23/spring-3-1-m1-caching/

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>
> Date: February 23, 2011 5:37:14 PM GMT+01:00
> To: Marc Schipperheyn <m.schipperheyn at gmail.com>
> Cc: hibernate-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Subject: Re: [hibernate-dev] Spring Cache Abstraction
> 
> It kinda like the declarative aspect of it though there are a lot of nasty strings all around :). The rest is not really new so all old school issues apply.
> 
> As usual for higher level caching you need to manually handle data eviction which is likely be a source of bugs. 
> They also don't say if they share the same entity instance or serialize / deserialize but unless this is read-only results (ie not modifiable by the user), you'd better be careful. Likewise, make sure you have a multi-threaded implementations of the data structure returned.
> They don't seem to discuss transaction or clustering. I imagine they let the underlying cache provider do the work.
> 
> More specifically with Hibernate, if you use such facility within a open session in view pattern, expect weirdness to happen as well as method level cached objects are not going to be managed entities:
> - not updated transparently
> - the same instance might be reattached to several session => badaboom
> 
> A good summary of where cache could happen in an application is available here
> http://docs.jboss.org/seam/2.2.1.Final/reference/en-US/html_single/#cache
> 
> Due to all the potential issues, I tend to favor HTML page fragment caching:
> - it's higher up the food chain hence likely more efficient
> - many of the issues declared above don't apply (not all disappear though)
> 
> But it's sure a useful tool for niche requirements that can live with such constraints.
> 
> Emmanuel
> 
> On 23 févr. 2011, at 17:04, Marc Schipperheyn wrote:
> 
>> It would be interesting to have the Hibernate team comment/blog on the new
>> Spring Cache Abstraction functionality and how it relates to Hibernate
>> managed entities. Perhaps some strategies, etc. It's very attractive to just
>> cache entities in stead of caching entity values with the second level
>> cache.
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Galder Zamarreño
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Infinispan, JBoss Cache