Chris Dennis - 2014-02-26

Now that the JSR-107 API is near completion, a number of developers at Terracotta (aka Ehcache) are about to kick off work on a native JSR-107 implementation. Obviously Ehcache has a feature set far larger than the scope of JSR-107 (something true of likely all cache implementations). What’s more the current Ehcache API is nearly 10 years old, and therefore has both a decade of accumulated cruft, and was also written against Java 1.4 (putting it far from the cutting edge). To that end the first thing that the Terracotta team will be doing is defining a completely new Ehcache API that is pseudo-compatible with JSR-107. We’d like to do this in as open a manner as possible so that we can get as much input from the community as possible.

More information can be found in Alex Snaps' blog post here: http://codespot.net/2014/02/26/starting-ehcache-3/
Discussion will happen here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ehcache-dev
Code will appear here: https://github.com/ehcache

Looking forward to everyone’s contributions,

Chris Dennis

Software AG JSR-107 Expert Group Member
Terracotta/Ehcache Engineer