Welcome to JBoss Cache

What is JBoss Cache?

JBoss Cache is a tree-structured, clustered, transactional cache. It can be used in a standalone, non-clustered environment, to cache frequently accessed data in memory thereby removing data retrieval or calculation bottlenecks while providing "enterprise" features such as JTA compatibility, eviction and persistence.

JBoss Cache is also a clustered cache, and can be used in a cluster to replicate state providing a high degree of failover. A variety of replication modes are supported, including invalidation and buddy replication, and network communications can either be synchronous or asynchronous.

When used in a clustered mode, the cache is an effective mechanism of building high availability, fault tolerance and even load balancing into custom applications and frameworks. For example, the JBoss Application Server and Red Hat's Enterprise Application Platform make extensive use of JBoss Cache to cluster services such as HTTP and EJB sessions, as well as providing a distributed entity cache for JPA.

JBoss Cache can - and often is - used outside of JBoss AS, in other Java EE environments such as Spring, Tomcat, Glassfish, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, and even in standalone Java programs thanks to its minimal dependency set. 

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