[infinispan-dev] Problem with HotRod cache updates

Hi, I am using the RemoteCacheManager to access a cache on my cluster. Getting an entry and updating it on the client works no problem, however on the server, the cache receives an entry with a byte array cache key, rather than the original string I put. My server results in the following listener output when the cache put occurs: DEBUG 0305-16:49:16:789 Cache (thermostatCache) entry modified: [3, 62, 4, 49, 48, 48, 48] (local=true) {foundation.infinispan.listener.CacheLoggingListener.entryModified} [HotRod-HotRodServerServerWorker-19]({}) DEBUG 0305-16:49:16:794 ++++ string: [B@690edaf3, new string: >1000 {foundation.infinispan.listener.CacheLoggingListener.entryModified} [HotRod-HotRodServerServerWorker-19]({}) The cache key in question is "1000". The output above is from a cache listener and the output is from CacheModifiedEvent.getKey(). I have some additional output to first do a toString() on the key, and a new string decoding the byte array. There are a few bytes prefixing the byte array which are not part of the cache key. In the cut/paste here, there are 2 characters missing, the "new string" has 2 unprintable character one before and one after the ">" character. What are the extra bytes in key? Why is the key inserted as bytes and not a string? The end effect is that my cluster cache gets a new junk entry in the cache with every client put. I did not see any documentation where it indicated I might need a custom key serializer. I am using strings for cache keys, nothing special. Updating the cache from the cluster-local cache works perfectly. Thanks, Mark