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Ehcache can be used directly. It can also be used with the popular Hibernate Object/Relational tool. Finally, it can be used for Java EE Servlet Caching.
This quick guide gets you started on each of these. The rest of the documentation can be explored for a deeper understanding.
See the Code Samples chapter for more information on direct interaction with ehcache.
See the Hibernate Caching chapter for more information.
See the Java EE Servlet Caching chapter for more information.
By default it will listen on port 8080, will have both RESTful and SOAP web services enabled, and will use a sample Ehcache configuration from the WAR module.
See the Cache Server chapter for more information.
Ehcache contains an early draft implementation of JCache contained in the net.sf.ehcache.jcache package.
See the JSR107 chapter for usage.
Usually, with these, you are using ehcache without even realising it. The first steps in getting more control over what is happening are:
