I am running a spring boot 1.5.2 app. I wanted to add caching to my service methods I have added the spring-boot-starter-cache maven dependency and I am using the @ Cacheable annotations but it is not taking effect I created my service beans in a @ Configuration class - here is an example

@Bean(name = "policyService")
public IPolicyService policyService() {
    policyService = new PolicyServiceImpl();
    return policyService;
}

Here is an example of my service method

@Cacheable(value="policiesCache")
    public List<PolicyDBO> findAllPolicies() {
        LOG.info("Entered findAllPolicies");

        List<PolicyDBO> policyList = policyRespoitory.findAll();

        LOG.info("Exiting findAllPolicies");
        return policyList;
    }

My repoistory interface method is as follows

@Repository
public interface PolicyRepository extends CrudRepository<PolicyDBO, Long>{

    /** Find policy by id **/
    PolicyDBO findById(Long policyId);
}

Whenever I call this service method from a RestController - the caching is never triggered - it looks like it is not setup properly

Any ideas what I can do to get caching setup correctly?

Thanks Damien