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"
        overflowToDisk="true"
        maxElementsOnDisk="1000"      
        memoryStoreEvictionPolicy="LRU"/>      

  <cache...