public Cache buildCache(String regionName,
    Properties properties) throws CacheException 
{
		throw new NoCachingEnabledException();
}

Configure the cache

 public boolean isMinimalPutsEnabledByDefault() 
{
		// this is called from SettingsFactory irregardless; trivial to simply disregard
		return false;
}

 public long nextTimestamp() 
{
		// This, is used by SessionFactoryImpl to hand to the generated SessionImpl;
		// was the only reason I could see that we cannot just use null as
		// Settings.cacheProvider
		return System.currentTimeMillis() / 100;
}

Generate a timestamp

 public  void start(Properties properties) throws CacheException 
{
		// this is called by SessionFactory irregardless; we just disregard here;
		// could also add a check to SessionFactory to only conditionally call start
}

Callback to perform any necessary initialization of the underlying cache implementation during SessionFactory construction.

 public  void stop() 
{
		// this is called by SessionFactory irregardless; we just disregard here;
		// could also add a check to SessionFactory to only conditionally call stop
}

Callback to perform any necessary cleanup of the underlying cache implementation during SessionFactory.close().