Using ehcache 3 with Spring Annotations (not using Spring Boot)

Question

I\'m trying to get Ehcache 3 working with Spring 4 without using Spring boot.

Here is a working example out there which uses Spring Boot, but I\'m working on an exis

Answer 1

Indeed there is no native support of Ehcache 3 in Spring Caching.

The good news is that you achieve what you want with the JCache support that Spring Caching has since Ehcache 3 is a compliant JCache implementation. And once you have a JCache CacheManager available in your application context, nothing forces you to use the JCache annotations. You can keep using the Spring Caching ones without any problem.

You can find a demo of that here.

Note: I am working on Ehcache