Mastering Spring Application Development

Maven dependency for Spring with caching

If you are using Maven as a build tool, ensure that you add the ehcache dependency in the pom.xml file. Below is the Maven dependency for using cache with spring's caching framework:

  <groupId>net.sf.ehcache</groupId>
  <artifactId>ehcache</artifactId>
  <version>2.7.4</version>
</dependency>

Declarative configuration of ehcache

In the following section, we can see how we can configure the cache storage declaratively. The ecache.xml file is as follows:

<ehcache xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="ehcache.xsd" updateCheck="true" monitoring="autodetect" dynamicConfig="true" maxBytesLocalHeap="150M" > <diskStore path="java.io.tmpdir"/> <cache name="searchResults" maxBytesLocalHeap="100M" eternal="false" timeToIdleSeconds="300" ...