JCache (JSR 107) is the Java standard for Caching… enough said. No more introductory stuff.
This is a quick fire post which talks about
- Multiple JCache provider configurations, and
- Feature: JCache stats via JMX Mbeans
Managing multiple JCache providers
In case you are dealing with a single JCache provider, javax.jcache.Caching.getCachingProvider() returns an instance of the one and only CachingProvider on your classpath.
If you have multiple JCache implementations on your application class path, an attempt at using the above snippet to bootstrap your JCache provider will greet you with the following exception (which is surprisingly friendly !)
javax.cache.CacheException: Multiple CachingProviders have been configured when only a single CachingProvider is expected
Overloading to the rescue!
There are overloaded versions of the getCachingProvider method, one of which allows you to specify the fully qualified class name of a specific JCache provider implementation. The exact class name would be provided as a part of your JCache vendor documentation e.g. com.tangosol.coherence.jcache.CoherenceBasedCachingProvider and com.hazelcast.cache.HazelcastCachingProvider are the provider classes for Oracle Coherence and Hazelcast respectively.
This would work just fine:
CachingProvider coherenceJCacheProvider = Caching.getCachingProvider(“com.tangosol.coherence.jcache.CoherenceBasedCachingProvider”).getCacheManager()
You can also grab the same from the META-INF/services/javax.cache.spi.CachingProvider of the JCache provider JAR file.
JMX statistics
JCache offers configuration and run time performance statistic for free! This is driven by provider specific implementations.
- javax.cache.management.CacheMXBean – make sure you enable this by calling setManagementEnabled(true) on the JCache MutableConfiguration object
- javax.cache.management.CacheStatisticsMXBean – – make sure you enable this by calling setStatisticsEnabled(true) on the JCache MutableConfiguration object
Example snippet
MutableConfiguration config = new MutableConfiguration().setManagementEnabled(true).setStatisticsEnabled(true);
Introspect the Mbeans from JConsole or any equivalent client
Nice ha ?
Cheers! :-)
| Reference: | Random JCache stuff: multiple Providers and JMX beans from our JCG partner Abhishek Gupta at the Object Oriented.. blog. |
