Session Management in Jboss Cache?

[doubledenim]

Hi There,

I'm currently building a web service in jboss that uses ejb3's persistence fairly extensively. The web service itself is stateful, takes a session ID on requests and retrieves the state of the session using ejb3's persistence. This as you can imagine creates a crap load of sql queries and has some serious performance issues. So my thinking is to shift my session state into memory rather than within the db.
I am wondering if i can/should use jboss cache for this? Am i missunderstanding its use? Or if anyone has any recommendations on how i should approach this issue?

Regards
Dan

[manik]

Are you using EJB3 in JBoss AS? JBoss AS's EJB3/JPA implementation is based on Hibernate, which can use JBoss Cache as a 2nd level cache. I'd recommend enabling caching for your entities.

Refer to http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/annotations/reference/en/html/entity.html#d0e2911 for details.

[doubledenim]

I'm using the EJB entity cache already. But I wanted to just cache other pojos which are only useful for the life of a user session without persisting to the db. Making a bunch of unnecesary inserts and updates is killing my applications performance.

I've had a crack at it and created i new thread.
http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=145182

Still having problems with setting this up so any help would be greatly appreciated.