Compatibility with AclCache and Spring 3.1 @Cacheable ehCache support?

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Hi Folks --

We've had Spring Security's ACL support running in an application for a while now. While attempting to introduce a caching layer (beyond ACLs) for the application that uses it, I've run into what seems to be a conflict between the org.springframework.security.acls.domain.EhCacheBa sedAclCache implementation and Spring 3.1's (3.1.1 in my case) EhCache provider to support @Cacheable.

After configuring my cacheManager for the application's cache, I was getting an exception telling me that there was already a cacheManager established, and that they need to be unique in order to be wired. Makes perfect sense. I then recalled that Spring Security was also using EhCache to support caching of the ACLs.

What I thought was the (sort of) intelligent thing to do was to change

   <!-- Declare an acl cache-->
    <bean id="aclCache" class="org.springframework.security.acls.domain.EhCacheBasedAclCache">
        <constructor-arg>
            <bean class="org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheFactoryBean">
                <property name="cacheManager">
                    <bean class="org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheManagerFactoryBean"/>
                </property>
                <property name="cacheName" value="aclCache"/>
            </bean>
        </constructor-arg>
    </bean>

to

    <!-- Declare an acl cache-->
    <bean id="aclCache" class="org.springframework.security.acls.domain.EhCacheBasedAclCache">
        <constructor-arg>
            <bean class="org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheFactoryBean">
                <property name="cacheManager" ref="cacheManager2"/>
                <property name="cacheName" value="aclCache"/>
            </bean>
        </constructor-arg>
    </bean>

where "cacheManager2" was the name I had given to the cacheManager I declared to use for the application itself. It seems that Spring Security's constructor is using the normal net.sf EhCacheManager class... a bit of the stacktrace here:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot convert value of type [org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheCacheManager] to required type [net.sf.ehcache.CacheManager] for property 'cacheManager': no matching editors or conversion strategy found
	at org.springframework.beans.TypeConverterDelegate.convertIfNecessary(TypeConverterDelegate.java:241) ~[spring-beans-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar:3.1.1.RELEASE]
	at org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.convertIfNecessary(BeanWrapperImpl.java:470) ~[spring-beans-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar:3.1.1.RELEASE]
	... 63 common frames omitted

I wondered if anyone could point me to any resources that describe how to use these two Spring features together? I can't imagine I'm the first one to try.

I'd appreciate any help!

Matt

[attack7]

To follow up on this, downgrading EhCache from version 2.5.1 to version 2.4.7 solved the problem. Hope it saves someone else a minute or two!

-Matt