Container Cached Entity Beans

[snacker]

I'm working in an environment that has multiple applications which use a mix of EJB and straight database calls.

The problem is if a database record is updated by one of the applications, the EJB container doesn't know about it. It takes a while before the container removes the entity bean from it's cache and reloads it from the database.

In the meantime the container continues to serve the old data.

Is there a way to tell the container to flush an object from it's cache?
Is there a way to mark an entity bean as "dirty"?

(I'm not talking about "JbossCache" here.)

[aglavina]

But I use hibernate.

[snacker]

I don't think hibernate would fix this issue.

The problem is there are many legacy applications which hit the database directly. They don't speak rmi, and can't communicate with jboss directly.

[aglavina]

try changing the "UseLocalCache" attribute in the jboss-service.xml file to false.

[snacker]

Thanks, I will try it.