Pete, I would really suggest using the Hibernate 2nd level cache for caching, it is a simple solution. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4105793#4105793 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4105793