problem creating an EhCache Cache from spring

Question

Reading the javadoc for EhCacheManagerFactoryBean and EhCacheFactoryBean I figured that:

<bean id="cacheManager" class="org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheManagerFactoryBean" p:configLocation="classpath:ehcache.xml"/>

<bean id="locationCache" class="org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheFactoryBean"
      p:cacheManager-ref="cacheManager"
      p:cacheName="locationCache"/>

would create a cache that I then can @Autowired in. But I must be missing something because this is what I get:

Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'locationCache' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: net.sf.ehcache.Cache.(Ljava/lang/String;ILnet/sf/ehcache/store/MemoryStoreEvictionPolicy; ZLjava/lang/String;ZJJZJLnet/sf/ehcache/event/RegisteredEventListeners; Lnet/sf/ehcache/bootstrap/BootstrapCacheLoader;II)V

I've tried ehcache 1.7.2, 1.6.2 and 1.5.0.

It works if I specify <cache name="locationCache" /> in ehcache.xml but I prefer to have my configuration done in applicationsContext.xml

<cache name="locationCache" /> 

Answer 1

The missing constructor belongs to Ehcache 1.3, and it still exists in the newer versions. May be, you have some problem with dependecnies. If you use maven, try mvn dependency:tree -Dverbose=true and look for conflicts.