Ehcache - whether objects are eternal or not

Question

In my ehcache configuration I see these:

eternal="false"
timeToIdleSeconds="0"
timeToLiveSeconds="0"

What does that mean effectively?

Documentation mentions that timeToLiveSeconds="0" means these checks will not be made. So this means objects will be eternal, even if "eternal" is set to false?

Answer 1

If you look at CacheConfiguration.java:826 (my version of Ehcache is 2.6.5), you will see the following:

if (eternal) {
    setTimeToIdleSeconds(0);
    setTimeToLiveSeconds(0);
}

So it's essentially the same thing.