I'm faced with this project: we have a legacy project, using hibernate, it's rather slow.
so we want to load the data from memcached instead, but since the objects are fairly complex, we need to serialize them before inserting into memcached. the problem is, that we need to make sure that the AVRO schema files that we use strictly mirror the domain object class definition, so we need to generate the AVRO schemas from the existing hibernate mapping files *.hbm.xml or from the domain class java files. is there such a convertor? or other existing integration approaches between hibernate and AVRO? (kind of off-topic below) another way of integrating memcached and hibernate is to use a lib someone developed to use memcached as a cache provider, not sure it's mature enough; ehcache also has a "distributed" solution similar to memcached, but requires enterprise license. Thanks Yang
