Defines contracts for transactional and concurrent access to cached
entity
and
collection
data. Transactions pass in a
timestamp indicating transaction start time which is then used to protect against concurrent access (exactly how
that occurs is based on the actual access-strategy impl used). Two different implementation patterns are provided
for.
Note that, for an asynchronous cache, cache invalidation must be a two step process (lock->unlock or
lock->afterUpdate), since this is the only way to guarantee consistency with the database for a nontransactional
cache implementation. For a synchronous cache, cache invalidation is a single step process (evict or update).
Hence, these contracts (org.hibernate.cache.access.EntityRegionAcessStrategy and
CollectionRegionAccessStrategy
) define a three step process to cater for both
models (see the individual contracts for details).
Note that query result caching does not go through an access strategy; those caches are managed directly against
the underlying QueryResultsRegion
.
CollectionRegionAccessStrategy | Contract for managing transactional and concurrent access to cached collection data. |
EntityRegionAccessStrategy | Contract for managing transactional and concurrent access to cached entity data. |
SoftLock | Moved up from inner definition on the now deprecated
CacheConcurrencyStrategy . |
AccessType | The types of access strategies available. |