anonymous wrote : Another method I don't find appropriate for public API is evict. I do not see an y reason for it to be publicly available, as it is rather internally used by eviction thread. No! It makes total sense for a cache-based application to want to control memory management itself. The application often knows more about the overall state of the system than the cache does. The fact that JBC provides a feature whereby it can help the application control memory doesn't mean that users should be forced to use that mechanism. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4157961#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...