Spring Cache - Part 5 - CacheEvict

In the Spring Cache series so far (Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4), we have seen examples where the data is getting added to the cache through the use of @Cacheable and @CachePut. But, what about removing data from cache? Consider a call to delete the record from Service or DB, in which case, we would also want to delete that record from the cache.

Spring Cache - Part 1 - Introduction

Caching is an extremely important aspect of applications that care about lower latencies. There are a multitude of rules one has to adhere to while setting up a cache, in order to optimize the performance; but not overdo it. We will not get into those details in this post. Our focus would be on what Spring provides to enable caching in your applications.