"bstansberry(a)jboss.com" wrote : Yeah, it's kind of hacky, probably a bad idea. Don't do it if the overhead of translating from Address to ClusterNode in the adapter class is small. The overhead looks small, primarily involving some string manipulation. I see that DNS lookups are now avoided thanks to http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3794. Clever. I'll make sure I make a note in the code of this potential optimisation in case we wanna implement it at a later stage. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4163681#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...