Caching objects
Scalability is a major concern in web application development. Generally, most web traffic is focused on some special set of information. So, only those records are queried very often. If we can cache these records, then the performance and scalability of the system will increase immensely.
The Spring Framework provides support for adding caching into an existing Spring application. In this section, we'll work with EhCache, the most widely used caching solution. Download the latest EhCache JAR from the Maven repository; the URL to download version 2.7.2 is http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/net.sf.ehcache/ehcache/2.7.2.
Spring provides two annotations for caching: @Cacheable and @CacheEvict. These annotations allow methods to trigger ...
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