private static void testCacheWrite() {

  // create the cache manager from our configuration
  URL url = TestBed.class.getClass().getResource("/resource/ehcache.xml");
  CacheManager manager = CacheManager.create(url);
  // check to see if our cache exits, if it doesn't create it
  Cache testCache = null;
  if (!manager.cacheExists("test")) {
    System.out.println("No cache found. Creating cache...");
    int maxElements = 50000;
    testCache = new Cache("test", maxElements,
      MemoryStoreEvictionPolicy.LFU, true, null, true, 60, 30,
      true, Cache.DEFAULT_EXPIRY_THREAD_INTERVAL_SECONDS, null);
    manager.addCache(testCache);
    // add an element to persist
    Element el = new Element("key", "value");
    testCache.put(el);
    testCache.flush();
    System.out.println("Cache to disk. Cache size on disk: " +
      testCache.getDiskStoreSize());
  } else {
    // cache exists so load it
    testCache = manager.getCache("test");
    Element el = testCache.get("key");
    if (null == el) {
      System.out.print("Value was null");
      return;
    }
    String value = (String) el.getObjectValue();
    System.out.println("Value is: " + value);
  }
  manager.shutdown();
}

<ehcache xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../config/ehcache.xsd">
  <diskStore path="C:/mycache"/><!-- java.io.tmpdir -->
  <defaultCache
    maxElementsInMemory="10000"
    eternal="true"
    timeToIdleSeconds="120"
    timeToLiveSeconds="120"
    overflowToDisk="true"
    maxElementsOnDisk="10000000"
    diskPersistent="true"
    diskExpiryThreadIntervalSeconds="120"
    memoryStoreEvictionPolicy="LRU" />
</ehcache>

No cache found. Creating cache...
Cache to disk. Cache size on disk: 2

<ehcache xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../config/ehcache.xsd">

    <diskStore path="C:/mycache" />

    <defaultCache
        maxElementsInMemory="10000"
        eternal="true"
        timeToIdleSeconds="120"
        timeToLiveSeconds="120"
        overflowToDisk="true"
        maxElementsOnDisk="10000000"
        diskPersistent="true"
        diskExpiryThreadIntervalSeconds="120"
        memoryStoreEvictionPolicy="LRU" />

    <cache
        name="test"
        maxElementsInMemory="500"
        eternal="true"
        overflowToDisk="true"
        timeToIdleSeconds="300"
        timeToLiveSeconds="600"
        diskPersistent="true"
        diskExpiryThreadIntervalSeconds="1"
        memoryStoreEvictionPolicy="LFU" />

</ehcache>

public DiskPersistentStorageFactory(Ehcache cache, String diskPath) {
    super(getDataFile(diskPath, cache), cache.getCacheConfiguration().getDiskExpiryThreadIntervalSeconds(),
            cache.getCacheConfiguration().getDiskSpoolBufferSizeMB(), cache.getCacheEventNotificationService(), false);

    indexFile = new File(getDataFile().getParentFile(), getIndexFileName(cache));
    flushTask = new IndexWriteTask(indexFile, cache.getCacheConfiguration().isClearOnFlush());

    if (!getDataFile().exists() || (getDataFile().length() == 0)) {
        LOG.debug("Matching data file missing (or empty) for index file. Deleting index file " + indexFile);
        indexFile.delete();
    } else if (getDataFile().exists() && indexFile.exists()) {
        if (getDataFile().lastModified() > (indexFile.lastModified() + TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMillis(1))) {
            LOG.warn("The index for data file {} is out of date, probably due to an unclean shutdown. "
                    + "Deleting index file {}", getDataFile(), indexFile);
            indexFile.delete();
        }
    }

    diskCapacity = cache.getCacheConfiguration().getMaxElementsOnDisk();
    memoryCapacity = cache.getCacheConfiguration().getMaxElementsInMemory();
    memoryPolicy = determineEvictionPolicy(cache.getCacheConfiguration());
}

File index = new File( path, name + ".index" );
        File data  = new File( path, name + ".data"  );

        data.setLastModified( index.lastModified() + 1 );

CacheManager.getInstance().shutdown();

manager.shutdown();

Cache cache = manager.getCache(name);
if (cache == null) {
    throw new NullPointerException(String.format("no cache with name %s defined, please configure it in %s", name, url));
}

// ehcache.xml - shared between different invocations
CacheManager defaultManager = CacheManager.getInstance();
// others - avoid calling twice with same argument
CacheManager manager = CacheManager.create(url);

public static CacheManager create(URL configurationFileURL) throws CacheException {
    synchronized (CacheManager.class) {
        if (singleton == null) {
            if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
                LOG.debug("Creating new CacheManager with config URL: " + configurationFileURL);
            }
            singleton = new CacheManager(configurationFileURL);

        }
        return singleton;
    }
}