Starting a cache instance at application startup

[sonicfab]

Guys,
can you give me advice on the good way(s) to start a cache instance when on application startup (in my case on Weblogic) ?
My idea is this :
a CacheManager singleton is instanciated by the classloader (or by the Spring BeanFactory, whichever), the TreeCache instance -myCache- is an attribute of CacheManager, and an ApplicationListener calls the static start() method of my CacheManager which will instanciate myCache and call myCache.startService()
Does this sound good to you, or is there a simpler or smarter way ?

[genman]

With Spring, you can create an instance of JBoss Cache, and indicate the initialization and destruction method in your XML file.

[ottuzzi]

Hi there,

I did exactly as you (sonicfab) suggested: I created a CacheManager singleton and I initialize/destroy cache in a ServletContextListener.
Pay attention during redeploy: if I redeploy a webApp using TreeCache in WebLogic 8.1 it hangs during cache shutdown; everything works as expected if you stop/start your webApp.

Bye
Piero