<ehcache xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.ehcache.org/ehcache.xsd" updateCheck="false"> <cache name="userCache" maxEntriesLocalHeap="10000" eternal="false" timeToIdleSeconds="300" timeToLiveSeconds="600" memoryStoreEvictionPolicy="LRU"/> </ehcache> CacheManager cacheManager = CacheManager.create(); Cache cache = cacheManager.getCache("userCache"); Element element = new Element("userId", userData); cache.put(element); Element cachedElement = cache.get("userId"); UserData cachedData = (UserData) cachedElement.getObjectValue(); cache.remove("userId"); cacheManager.shutdown();