I have several collections of lookups such as countries and states. I'd like to rely on the second level cache for these; however, I'm noticing that it appears to requery the database everytime instead of using the cache. For example, my Country class has the following annotations:

@Entity
@NamedQueries({
 @NamedQuery(name="allCountries", queryString="from Country")
})
@org.hibernate.annotations.Cache(usage = CacheConcurrencyStrategy.READ_ONLY)

A session bean service does the following:

manager.createNamedQuery("allCountries").getResultList();

I understand that the cache is used when retrieving with the primary key of the entity, but I'm issuing a query instead. Is it possible to guarantee a cache hit when running queries?

Darin