Hibernate 3 - Caching

First Level Cache Questions in this category test if :

• You understand the mechanism and link with the session
• You can anticipate when Hibernate will access the DB and when the 1st level cache will be used
• you know which API (Session methods) helps managing cache content

Query Cache Questions in this category test if :

• You know how to activate the query cache
• You know what is cached in this cache (id of entities)

Second Level Cache Questions in this category test if :

• You understand cache Architecture
  • know what are the caches supported "out-of-the-box"
  • Understand the use of CacheProvider interface.
• You know how to configure 2nd level cache
  • What should be inserted in hibernate.cfg.xml
  • What should be included in mapping file at class and collection level
• you understand dehydration mechanism
• Given Java code manipulating entities, you are to say what is contained in the cache