This has been completed and made it into the 4.1 release. There are two
parts, a persistence context level cache of PK->NaturalId and
NaturalId->PK and a new NaturalIdCacheRegion was added to the caching
SPI. The Ehcache provider that ships with Hibernate was updated to
support the new region a
This has been a recurring subject in the ehcache forum and a source of
misunderstanding by many.
Having the second level cache support these as "first class citizen"
makes total sense to me. Is there some draft of how this would look
like ? Would this be a mapping of natural id to primary key ?
Sor