Spring 5 Design Patterns

Ehcache-based cache

Ehcache is one of the most popular cache providers. Spring allows you to integrate with Ehcache by configuring EhCacheCacheManager in the application. Take for example, the following Java configuration:

    @Bean 
    public CacheManager cacheManager(CacheManager ehCache) { 
      EhCacheCacheManager cmgr = new EhCacheCacheManager(); 
      cmgr.setCacheManager(ehCache); 
      return cmgr; 
    } 
    @Bean  
    public EhCacheManagerFactoryBean ehCacheManagerFactoryBean() { 
      EhCacheManagerFactoryBean eh = new EhCacheManagerFactoryBean(); 
      eh.setConfigLocation(new        ClassPathResource("resources/ehcache.xml")); 
      return eh; 
    } 

In the preceding code, the bean method, cacheManager(), creates an object of EhCacheCacheManager, and set it with the CacheManager of Ehcache. ...