Getting Started

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>net.sf.ehcache</groupId>
  <artifactId>ehcache</artifactId>
  <version>1.6.0-beta1</version>
</dependency>

Sample

Configuration

Add ehcache.xml…

../../../misc/howto/java/ehcache/ehcache.xml

…to the classpath. Look at the comments in the file for more configuration information.

Create

private final Cache cache;

final CacheManager cacheManager = CacheManager.create();
cacheManager.addCache(CACHE_NAME);
cache = cacheManager.getCache(CACHE_NAME);

Add

cache.put(new Element(fileName, path));

Get

if (cache.get(fileName) == null)

final Element element = getCache().get(fileName);
if (element == null) {
    return null;
} else {
    final Serializable result = element.getValue();
    return result.toString();
}