Add caching: the Spring cache abstraction, keys, eviction timing and the self-invocation trap

A Spring Boot 4.1.1 module whose test suite is the evidence for the article: 19 tests
producing 22 transcripts under docs/output/, plus 12 documentation chapters.

Findings the build pins:
- @EnableCaching has no exposeProxy attribute; the widely-copied
  @EnableCaching(exposeProxy = true) does not compile.
- Two methods sharing a cache name and an argument type share a key space, and one
  silently serves the other's answers.
- beforeInvocation = true is NOT deferred by TransactionAwareCacheManagerProxy on
  7.0.9 - doEvict picks evictIfPresent, which the decorator does not intercept.
- Four of five invalid declarations start a clean context and throw at the first call.
- Caffeine on the classpath silently displaces the simple provider.
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# Why beforeInvocation=true is not deferred by TransactionAwareCacheManagerProxy
$ javap -c -p org.springframework.cache.interceptor.AbstractCacheInvoker # spring-context-7.0.9.jar
protected void doEvict(org.springframework.cache.Cache, java.lang.Object, boolean);
Code:
0: iload_3
1: ifeq 15
4: aload_1
5: aload_2
6: invokeinterface #83, 2 // InterfaceMethod org/springframework/cache/Cache.evictIfPresent:(Ljava/lang/Object;)Z
11: pop
12: goto 22
15: aload_1
16: aload_2
17: invokeinterface #87, 2 // InterfaceMethod org/springframework/cache/Cache.evict:(Ljava/lang/Object;)V
22: goto 40
25: astore 4
$ javap -c -p org.springframework.cache.transaction.TransactionAwareCacheDecorator # spring-context-support-7.0.9.jar
public void evict(java.lang.Object);
Code:
0: invokestatic #48 // Method org/springframework/transaction/support/TransactionSynchronizationManager.isSynchronizationActive:()Z
3: ifeq 21
6: new #71 // class org/springframework/cache/transaction/TransactionAwareCacheDecorator$2
9: dup
10: aload_0
11: aload_1
12: invokespecial #73 // Method org/springframework/cache/transaction/TransactionAwareCacheDecorator$2."<init>":(Lorg/springframework/cache/transaction/TransactionAwareCacheDecorator;Ljava/lang/Object;)V
15: invokestatic #59 // Method org/springframework/transaction/support/TransactionSynchronizationManager.registerSynchronization:(Lorg/springframework/transaction/support/TransactionSynchronization;)V
18: goto 31
21: aload_0
22: getfield #15 // Field targetCache:Lorg/springframework/cache/Cache;
25: aload_1
public boolean evictIfPresent(java.lang.Object);
Code:
0: aload_0
1: getfield #15 // Field targetCache:Lorg/springframework/cache/Cache;
4: aload_1
5: invokeinterface #80, 2 // InterfaceMethod org/springframework/cache/Cache.evictIfPresent:(Ljava/lang/Object;)Z
10: ireturn
doEvict(cache, key, true) -> Cache.evictIfPresent -> straight to the target cache
doEvict(cache, key, false) -> Cache.evict -> registerSynchronization, runs after commit
spring-framework#23192 reported beforeInvocation=true being swallowed by the
transaction-aware decorator. On 7.0.9 it is not: the immediate path uses a method
the decorator does not intercept. Note also that the decorator ships in
spring-context-support, not spring-context.