JCache provides a standard way for Java programs to create, access, update, and remove entries from caches, the specification documentation states.

“JCache is fully expected to move forward strongly independent of Java EE 7 and be an excellent candidate for Java EE 8,” the post added. In addition, developers should be able to use JCache ...

Greg Luck is co-spec lead on JSR 107 and the CTO of Hazelcast, which develops, distributes and supports a leading open source in-memory data grid (IMDG), also called Hazelcast.

"JCache provides a well thought out, standardized API and programming contract for Java caching," said Greg Luck, Hazelcast CTO and co-author of the JCache spec, in a statement.