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You're reading from Spring 5 Design Patterns Master efficient application development with patterns such as proxy, singleton, the template method, and more

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788299459

Length 396 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Spring

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Dinesh Rajput

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Spring Framework 5.0 and Design Patterns

2. Overview of GOF Design Patterns - Core Design Patterns FREE CHAPTER

3. Consideration of Structural and Behavioral Patterns

4. Wiring Beans using the Dependency Injection Pattern

5. Understanding the Bean Life Cycle and Used Patterns

6. Spring Aspect Oriented Programming with Proxy and Decorator pattern

7. Accessing a Database with Spring and JDBC Template Patterns

8. Accessing Database with Spring ORM and Transactions Implementing Patterns

9. Improving Application Performance Using Caching Patterns

10. Implementing the MVC Pattern in a Web Application using Spring

11. Implementing Reactive Design Patterns

12. Implementing Concurrency Patterns

Enabling caching via the Proxy pattern

You can enable Spring's cache abstraction in the following two ways:

Using Annotation
Using the XML namespace

Spring transparently applies caching to the methods of Spring beans by using AOP. Spring applies proxy around the Spring beans where you declare the methods that need to be cached. This proxy adds the dynamic behavior of caching to the Spring beans. The following diagram illustrates the caching behavior:

In the preceding diagram, you can see that Spring applies Proxy to the AccountServiceImpl class to add the caching behavior. Spring uses the GoF proxy pattern to implement caching in the application.

Let's look at how to enable this feature in a Spring application.

Enabling the caching proxy using Annotation

As you already know, Spring provides lots of features, but they are, mostly, disabled. You must enable these feature before using it. If you want to use Spring's cache abstraction in your application, you have to enable this feature. If you are...