How to cache a Memcached connection using the java spymemcached client

I am learning how to cache objects using memcached with the spymemcached client from spymemcached examples

MemcachedClient c=new MemcachedClient(new InetSocketAddress("hostname", portNum));    
// Store a value (async) for one hour
c.set("someKey", 3600, someObject);
// Retrieve a value (synchronously).
Object myObject=c.get("someKey");

I have noted that each time I want to cache or retrieve an object I create a new memcached client which am assuming is a new connection and that memcached has no connection pooling mechanism therefore users are advised to cache the connections to decrease overhead for reconnecting from this question opening closing and reusing connections.

My question is how do I cache this connection? Can someone please give me an example I can start from. If you are wondering what I have tried, I tried to put my connection in the memcached but then I realized that I have to create a connection to get it. :)

Thanks in advance.

I did a little more research and stumbled on this question Then I came up with my solution as,

first created a contextlistener

public class ContextListener implements ServletContextListener {

    @Override
    public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce) {
        Memcached.createClient();
    }

    @Override
    public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent sce) {
    }

}

then i added the listener to the deployment discriptor by adding these lines to web.xml

<listener>
    <description>Used with memcached to initialize connection</description>
    <listener-class>com.qualebs.managers.ContextListener</listener-class>
</listener>

I created a class Memcached and added these methods

    static void createClient() {
        try {
            client = new MemcachedClient(new InetSocketAddress("localhost", 11211));
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(Memcached.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, ex.getMessage(), ex);
        }
    }

    static MemcachedClient getClient() throws IOException {
        return client;
    }

Now anywhere I need to use memcached connection just call Memcached.getClient() I hope that will help anybody else out there with the same question.