2 September 2006: ehcache-1.2.3 released

This is a maintenance release. It contains eight feature requests and 6 bug fixes received in the two months since ehcache-1.2.2 was released. See the changelog for details.

All of the feature changes come from the suggestions of people with practical experience using ehcache-1.2. The changes are all fine tuning of the distributed caching functionality rather than large changes.

The distributed caching functionality was released four months ago. There are many production sites running this now, including that of the maintainers.

One of the more difficult aspects of getting distributed caching going is getting past network configurations that swallow multicast. A tool, ehcache-1.2.3-remote-debugger.jar is now included in the distribution so that distributed traffic can be listened in on.

The number of lines of code in ehcache is now three times bigger than ehcache-1.0. They have increased as the features of ehcache have increased. To complement this increase in complexity, commercial support is now available for ehcache. Contact kluck@gregluck.com for details.

1 September 2006: Ehcache three years old and going strong

Ehcache had more than 4000 downloads per month for the last three months in a row. This is up from the 1500 downloads per month it was running at for the two years before then.

The result is there is now a much larger user community who use ehcache directly, rather than through one of the popular frameworks. This places new demands on the project but also means that most of the code paths and API are being utilised, leading to fewer undiscovered bugs and a continuing evolution of features.