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