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Cachable Static Assets with Spring MVC 1. Overview This article focuses on caching static assets (such as Javascript and CSS files) when serving them with Spring MVC. We’ll also touch on the concept of “perfect caching”, essentially making sure that – when a file is updated – the old version… Continue Reading cachable-static-assets-with-spring-mvc

A Guide To Caching in Spring 1. The Cache Abstraction? In this article, we’re going to show how to use the Caching Abstraction in Spring – and generally, improve the performance of your system. We’ll enable simple caching for some real-world method examples and we’ll discuss how we can practically… Continue Reading spring-cache-tutorial

Introduction to Caffeine 1. Introduction In this article, we’re going to take a look at Caffeine — a high-performance caching library for Java. One fundamental difference between a cache and a Map is that a cache evicts stored items. An eviction policy decides which objects should be deleted at any… Continue Reading java-caching-caffeine

Introduction to JCache 1. Overview Simply put, JCache is the standard caching API for Java. In this tutorial, we’re going to see what JCache is and how we can use it. 2. Maven Dependencies To use JCache, we need to add the following dependency to our pom.xml: <dependency> <groupId>javax.cache</groupId> <artifactId>cache-api</artifactId>… Continue Reading jcache

Cache Eviction in Spring Boot 1. Overview In this short tutorial, we’re going to learn how we can perform cache eviction using Spring. We’ll be creating a small example to demonstrate this. Before proceeding, check out our article – Guide To Caching in Spring – to get familiar with how Spring caching… Continue Reading spring-boot-evict-cache

Introduction To Ehcache 1. Overview In this article, we will introduce Ehcache, a widely used, open-source Java-based cache. It features memory and disk stores, listeners, cache loaders, RESTful and SOAP APIs and other very useful features. To show how caching can optimize our application, we will create a simple method… Continue Reading ehcache

Guava Cache 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at the Guava Cache implementation – basic usage, eviction policies, refreshing the cache and some interesting bulk operations. Finally, we will take a look at the using the removal notifications the cache is able to send out. 2. How… Continue Reading guava-cache

Introduction to Guava CacheLoader 1. Introduction In this article, we’ll introduce the Guava CacheLoader. Before reading further, it’s recommended that there is a basic understanding of the LoadingCache class first. This is because the CacheLoader works with it specifically. Essentially, the CacheLoader is a function used for computing a value… Continue Reading guava-cacheloader

Spring Cache – Creating a Custom KeyGenerator 1. Overview In this quick tutorial, we’re going to illustrate how to create a custom key generator with Spring Cache. For an introduction to the above module, please refer to this article. 2. KeyGenerator This is responsible for generating every key for each… Continue Reading spring-cache-custom-keygenerator

Spring Security – Cache Control Headers 1. Introduction In this article, we’ll explore how we can control HTTP caching with Spring Security. We’ll demonstrate its default behavior, and also explain the reasoning behind it. We’ll then look at ways to change this behavior, either partially or completely. 2. Default Caching… Continue Reading spring-security-cache-control-headers