diff --git a/spring-boot-autoconfigure/pom.xml b/spring-boot-autoconfigure/pom.xml
index e51abb7c1f..00cf7eef4c 100755
--- a/spring-boot-autoconfigure/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-boot-autoconfigure/pom.xml
@@ -250,6 +250,11 @@
 			<artifactId>undertow-websockets-jsr</artifactId>
 			<optional>true</optional>
 		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.ehcache</groupId>
+			<artifactId>ehcache</artifactId>
+			<optional>true</optional>
+		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.freemarker</groupId>
 			<artifactId>freemarker</artifactId>
diff --git a/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/cache/CacheAutoConfigurationTests.java b/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/cache/CacheAutoConfigurationTests.java
index 5709dc6da8..959b2a17b3 100644
--- a/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/cache/CacheAutoConfigurationTests.java
+++ b/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/cache/CacheAutoConfigurationTests.java
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ import com.hazelcast.cache.HazelcastCachingProvider;
 import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
 import com.hazelcast.spring.cache.HazelcastCacheManager;
 import net.sf.ehcache.Status;
+import org.ehcache.jsr107.EhcacheCachingProvider;
 import org.infinispan.configuration.cache.ConfigurationBuilder;
 import org.infinispan.jcache.embedded.JCachingProvider;
 import org.infinispan.spring.provider.SpringEmbeddedCacheManager;
@@ -372,7 +373,7 @@ public class CacheAutoConfigurationTests {
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	public void ehCacheCacheWithCaches() {
+	public void ehcacheCacheWithCaches() {
 		load(DefaultCacheConfiguration.class, "spring.cache.type=ehcache");
 		EhCacheCacheManager cacheManager = validateCacheManager(
 				EhCacheCacheManager.class);
@@ -382,13 +383,13 @@ public class CacheAutoConfigurationTests {
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	public void ehCacheCacheWithCustomizers() {
+	public void ehcacheCacheWithCustomizers() {
 		testCustomizers(DefaultCacheAndCustomizersConfiguration.class, "ehcache",
-				"allCacheManagerCustomizer", "ehCacheCacheManagerCustomizer");
+				"allCacheManagerCustomizer", "ehcacheCacheManagerCustomizer");
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	public void ehCacheCacheWithConfig() {
+	public void ehcacheCacheWithConfig() {
 		load(DefaultCacheConfiguration.class, "spring.cache.type=ehcache",
 				"spring.cache.ehcache.config=cache/ehcache-override.xml");
 		EhCacheCacheManager cacheManager = validateCacheManager(
@@ -398,7 +399,7 @@ public class CacheAutoConfigurationTests {
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	public void ehCacheCacheWithExistingCacheManager() {
+	public void ehcacheCacheWithExistingCacheManager() {
 		load(EhCacheCustomCacheManager.class, "spring.cache.type=ehcache");
 		EhCacheCacheManager cacheManager = validateCacheManager(
 				EhCacheCacheManager.class);
@@ -406,6 +407,31 @@ public class CacheAutoConfigurationTests {
 				.isEqualTo(this.context.getBean("customEhCacheCacheManager"));
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void ehcache3AsJCacheWithCaches() {
+		String cachingProviderFqn = EhcacheCachingProvider.class.getName();
+		load(DefaultCacheConfiguration.class, "spring.cache.type=jcache",
+				"spring.cache.jcache.provider=" + cachingProviderFqn,
+				"spring.cache.cacheNames[0]=foo", "spring.cache.cacheNames[1]=bar");
+		JCacheCacheManager cacheManager = validateCacheManager(JCacheCacheManager.class);
+		assertThat(cacheManager.getCacheNames()).containsOnly("foo", "bar");
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void ehcache3AsJCacheWithConfig() throws IOException {
+		String cachingProviderFqn = EhcacheCachingProvider.class.getName();
+		String configLocation = "ehcache3.xml";
+		load(DefaultCacheConfiguration.class, "spring.cache.type=jcache",
+				"spring.cache.jcache.provider=" + cachingProviderFqn,
+				"spring.cache.jcache.config=" + configLocation);
+		JCacheCacheManager cacheManager = validateCacheManager(JCacheCacheManager.class);
+
+		Resource configResource = new ClassPathResource(configLocation);
+		assertThat(cacheManager.getCacheManager().getURI())
+				.isEqualTo(configResource.getURI());
+		assertThat(cacheManager.getCacheNames()).containsOnly("foo", "bar");
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	public void hazelcastCacheExplicit() {
 		load(DefaultCacheConfiguration.class, "spring.cache.type=hazelcast");
@@ -1036,7 +1062,7 @@ public class CacheAutoConfigurationTests {
 		}
 
 		@Bean
-		public CacheManagerCustomizer<EhCacheCacheManager> ehCacheCacheManagerCustomizer() {
+		public CacheManagerCustomizer<EhCacheCacheManager> ehcacheCacheManagerCustomizer() {
 			return new CacheManagerTestCustomizer<EhCacheCacheManager>() {
 			};
 		}
diff --git a/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/resources/ehcache3.xml b/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/resources/ehcache3.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..12ab645b9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/resources/ehcache3.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<config
+		xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
+		xmlns='http://www.ehcache.org/v3'
+		xmlns:jsr107='http://www.ehcache.org/v3/jsr107'
+		xsi:schemaLocation="
+        http://www.ehcache.org/v3 http://www.ehcache.org/schema/ehcache-core-3.1.xsd
+        http://www.ehcache.org/v3/jsr107 http://www.ehcache.org/schema/ehcache-107-ext-3.1.xsd">
+
+	<cache-template name="example">
+		<heap unit="entries">200</heap>
+	</cache-template>
+
+	<cache alias="foo" uses-template="example">
+		<expiry>
+			<ttl unit="seconds">600</ttl>
+		</expiry>
+		<jsr107:mbeans enable-statistics="true"/>
+	</cache>
+
+	<cache alias="bar" uses-template="example">
+		<expiry>
+			<ttl unit="seconds">400</ttl>
+		</expiry>
+	</cache>
+
+</config>
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diff --git a/spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml b/spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml
index 9b02e93a66..58e609f737 100644
--- a/spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
 		<dom4j.version>1.6.1</dom4j.version>
 		<dropwizard-metrics.version>3.1.2</dropwizard-metrics.version>
 		<ehcache.version>2.10.2.2.21</ehcache.version>
-		<ehcache3.version>3.1.0</ehcache3.version>
+		<ehcache3.version>3.1.1</ehcache3.version>
 		<embedded-mongo.version>1.50.5</embedded-mongo.version>
 		<flyway.version>3.2.1</flyway.version>
 		<freemarker.version>2.3.24-incubating</freemarker.version>