By default, most cache operations will propagate a runtime CacheException on failure. An interceptor, using a dynamic proxy, may be configured so that a CacheExceptionHandler can be configured to intercept Exceptions. Errors are not intercepted.

Caches with ExceptionHandling configured are of type Ehcache. To get the exception handling behavior they must be referenced using CacheManager.getEhcache(), not CacheManager.getCache(), which returns the underlying undecorated cache.

Exception handlers are configured per cache. Each cache can have at most one exception handler. You can set CacheExceptionHandlers either declaratively in the ehcache.xml configuration file, or programmatically.