Understanding Spring Boot Caching with JCache, Annotations, and Redis Integration
This article explains Spring Boot's caching mechanism based on the JSR‑107 JCache specification, details core interfaces and implementations like Cache, AbstractValueAdaptingCache, and ConcurrentMapCache, demonstrates cache annotations such as @Cacheable, @CachePut and @CacheEvict, and shows how to replace the default in‑memory cache with Redis using Docker, StringRedisTemplate, and custom serialization.