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First Hand on JCS

Java Caching system (JCS) is open source java based caching system. JCS is useful for high read , low put application. The base of JCS is the Composite Cache, which is the pluggable controller for a cache region. There are fews terms relatated to JCS such as Element, Region, Auxiliaries etc  JCS is an object cache, exactly like putting object in hashtables. These objects are nothing but elements and each hashtable is Cache Region and customisable plugins to region are Auxiliaries.  You can read more about JCS at   http://jakarta.apache.org/jcs/index.html . This tutorial gives simple steps to get JCS working. 1. Download JCS from  http://jakarta.apache.org/jcs/DownloadPage.html 2. JCS needs two more jar files  1. common-logging.jar You will get this jar from apache tomcat installtion 2. concurrent.jar  You will get required java source code at  http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/classes/EDU/oswego/cs/dl/util/concurrent/intro.html. Once you download source c...