Ehcache is an open source, standards-based cache that boosts performance, offloads your database, and simplifies scalability. It's the most widely-used Java-based cache because it's robust, proven, full-featured, and integrates with other popular libraries and frameworks. Ehcache scales from in-process caching, all the way to mixed in-process/out-of-process deployments with terabyte-sized caches.
http://www.ehcache.org/
Ehcache在很多项目中都出现过，用法也比较简单。一般的加些配置就可以了，而且Ehcache可以对页面、对象、数据进行缓存，同时支持集群/分布式缓存。如果整合Spring、Hibernate也非常的简单，Spring对Ehcache的支持也非常好。EHCache支持内存和磁盘的缓存，支持LRU、LFU和FIFO多种淘汰算法，支持分布式的Cache，可以作为Hibernate的缓存插件。同时它也能提供基于Filter的Cache，该Filter可以缓存响应的内容并采用Gzip压缩提高响应速度。