Cannot find class [org.hibernate.cache.EhCacheProvider] using Second-level cache of Hibernate

Question

I'm following a tutorial using second-level cache of Hibernate. The hibernate version is hibernate-core-4.3.10.Final.jar .But when I configure it in hibernate.cfg.xml with properties hibernate.cache.provider_class . The value should be org.hibernate.cache.EhCacheProvider according to the tutorial. But in my case, I can't find this class. I checked the jar file and didn't find this class in it.

Does anyone know where it's placed? Is it changed because of the version?

When I searched this issue online, I found that there's other ways configuring the second-level cache of Hibernate. It will be grateful if you can explain this as well.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

In the ehcache site you will find documentation about hibernate integration.

For Hibernate 4 use org.hibernate.cache.ehcache.EhCacheRegionFactory

Also check that you have the correct hibernate-ehcache library. If you are using maven, the dependency for H4 is:

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>  
   <artifactId>hibernate-ehcache</artifactId>
   <version>4.0.0</version>
</dependency>

Edit: here is a guy that get all the needed libaries directly from ehcache distribution zip , maybe is your case.