@Cacheable in Java EE

Question

Spring framework has a very nice @Cacheable annotation. Is there a way to reproduce this functionality in a Java EE application by using @Interceptors and ehCache?

Answer 1

There is JSR-107, standardising a Java Cache API. This was scheduled to be included in Java EE 7, but will not make it in time according to the latest announcements.

Anyway, I tried the reference implementation in Dec. 2012, and it worked fine for me after applying two minor pull requests and building it locally. I didn't try it with ehCache, though.

There are annotations that work with CDI.