My requirements consist of using ehCache to send and store data via RESTful web service calls. The data can be stored in-memory or via the filesystem…
Never used ehCache before so I am having some issues deciding on which bundle to use.
Have downloaded the following bundles:
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ehcache-2.6.2
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ehcache-standalone-server-1.0.0
(1) What is the difference between the two?
It seems the ehcache-2.6.2 contains src and binaries, which essentially enables one to bundle it with their webapps (by putting the compiled jar or binaries inside the webapp’s WEB-INF/lib folder). But it doesn’t seem that it has support for Restful web services.
Whereas, ehcache-standalone-server-1.0.0 (comes with an embedded Glassfish server and has support for REST & SOAP) can be used to run as a standalone server. If I my answers to my own question are correct, then that means, I should just use the standalone server?
(2) My requirements are to setup ehCache (with REST support) on Tomcat 7. So, how could I setup ehCache on Tomcat 7 as a separate app with REST & SOAP support?
Thank you for taking the time to read this…
Prashanth should get some credit for this but he didn’t post the solution as an answer but as a comment.
To setup tomcat there’s some additional things that need to be done:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ehcache/files/ehcache-server/
Untar the zip file and rename it to ehcache.war
Unzip the ehcache.war file and download the slf4j-simple-1.5.8.jar (this contains the impl) and place it inside:
ehcache/WEB-INF/lib/
Move the ehcache dir under $CATALINA_HOME/webapps
Run tomcat
Use one of the example REST calls to test ehcache, here’s the URL for the scripts:
http://ehcache.org/documentation/2.5/modules/cache-server