JBossCache - Access cache from separate Java app

My company wants to investigate the option of launching one java app that simply configures and starts a cache on an app server, then have a separate stand alone app call that instance from the first program and write to/read from it.

We currently have a job that access to data is slow, but if we can load the data and always have it available on the same machine, this may be a good bet to help access speed.

There are no examples I am finding to having a separate project access that cache.

If anyone has any direction or a U开发者_JAVA技巧RL of an example I would appreciate it.

Or if this is easier to accomplish in another open souce available, please give your opinion.

Thanks in advance.

JBoss is a very heavy hammer to build a cache.

Did you consider memcached ?

If you like to stay on the JVM, I just found that ehcache can run as a standalone server.