Redis作为Hibernate二级缓存

I have a crazy idea : use Redis as hibernate second cache level. Redis is an in-memory datastore, it supports replication, pipeline, etc.. The goal is to share the hibernate cache between many tomcat nodes. The basic implementation should be to serailize Hibernate cache object key and value and store all into a Redis database. What do you think about that idea ? I have a crazy idea : use Redis as hibernate se