"manik.surtani(a)jboss.com" wrote : Re: lifecycle, don't people find it useful to create a cache, then set up stuff, such as register classloaders for regions, register listeners, etc., and then start? | | Or should create() really be an initial state that is attained by calling CacheFactory.createCache()? Yeah, I think that's the idea. anonymous wrote : And then what about stop() and destroy()? Does it not make sense that a cache, once stopped, could be started again - which implies that internal components should not be cleaned up/released? Yes, absolutely. anonymous wrote : In which case isn't a destroy() necessasry to actually release resources and clean up? Depends on whether they require some cleanup beyond garbage collection. Sounds like that's the thing to investigate. Not sure if I was clear in my previous comment on this. Not saying we should definitely drop the 4 step lifecycle; just that the original reason for it no longer really applies, so worth looking into it. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4158380#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...