Java TTL Cache, the Quick and Dirty Way

There are many caching systems in java. I really like some of them (especially Ian Schumacher's LRU Cache). But sometimes you just to drop a quick few lines to get something in a local cache. Here is one way of doing it:

private static Map urlItemCache = Collections.synchronizedMap(new HashMap());
private static Map urlItemCacheTtl = Collections.synchronizedMap(new HashMap());
private static final long TTL=1000*60*60;//one hour in milliseconds

public static String findItemByUrl( String url) {
 String item="";
 Long now=Long.valueOf(Calendar.getInstance().getTimeInMillis());

 //try to get the item from the local cache
 item = urlItemCache.get(url);
 if ( !isEmpty(item)) {
  //urlItemCacheTtl.get(url) is guaranteed to have a value, since it's added at the same time urlItemCache is.
  if (now.longValue() - urlItemCacheTtl.get(url).longValue() < TTL ) {
   urlItemCacheTtl.put(url, now); //see comment below
   return item;
  } else {
   urlItemCache.remove(url);
   urlItemCacheTtl.remove(url);
  }
 }
 //not found in cache
 //... do you application magic here to get the item ...
 if ( !isEmpty(item) ) {
  urlItemCache.put(url, item); //add to local cache
  urlItemCacheTtl.put(url, now);
  return item;
 } //else 
 return null;
}