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Hibernate cache not working with RichFaces bean

I'm having a bean that basically calls getSession().createCriteria(ObjClass.class).list(); each time a request is made. It takes 16 secs to load everything first time, then it takes like 1 or so. Thing is that in a unit test cache works great, but when multiple requests are made to a bean, it never even uses cache. Question is why?

Info: it's a second level hibernate (3.5.x) cache (2.0) with org.hibernate.cache.HashtableCacheProvider and query level cache usage turned on. Using richfaces 3.3.3 request scoped bean with keep alive enabled.

Solution

  • If you don't make the query cachable, it won't be cached:

    getSession().createCriteria(ObjClass.class)
            .setCacheable(true)
            .list();

    You could also set the cache region for more fine-grained configuration.