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asmhatre 66208bcd97 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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# A mutable argument is an entry you cannot find again
first call : byList([java]) -> tags=[java]
cache "mutable":
key [java] [ArrayList] -> tags=[java]
the caller mutates the same list it passed in: [java, spring]
second call : byList([java, spring]) -> tags=[java, spring]
cache "mutable":
key [java, spring] [ArrayList] -> tags=[java]
key [java, spring] [ArrayList] -> tags=[java, spring]
Two entries, and their keys now print identically - because they are the
same object. The caller mutated the list it had already handed over as a
key, so the first entry sits in the map under a hashCode the map no longer
agrees with. Nothing will find it again and nothing will evict it: a leak
with a completely ordinary-looking cause.