Much like providing a list of properties files in priority for PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer, it would be nice to be able to do the same for EhCacheManagerFactoryBean. This would allow a default EhCache configuration to be inside your Jar/War on the classpath, and if need be, you can override that configuration by providing another location to load from. Example XML: <bean id="cacheManager" class="org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheManagerFactoryBean"> <property name="configLocations"> <list> <value>classpath*:ehcache.override.xml</value> <value>classpath*:META-INF/ehcache.default.xml</value> </list> </property> </bean> Example code that should be added to EhCacheManagerFactoryBean (or in a subclass of it): /**

• Based on an array of configuration location {@link Resource}s listed in * order of decending priority, this will use the first available * {@link Resource} to configure the EhCache CacheManager.
• @return the config location {@link Resource} to use */ public void setConfigLocations(final Resource[] configLocations) {

if (configLocations == null || configLocations.length < 0) { logger.info("No valid configLocations were set."); return; } // uses the first available config location super.setConfigLocation(configLocations[0]); }