WRT transactions, I guess what I mean is, let's not automatically try and deduce whether a node is structural. I.e., let's make developers explicitly make a node resident instead. E.g., | cache.put("/a/b/c", "k", "v"); | cache.getRoot().getChild("/a").setResident(true); | cache.getRoot().getChild("/a/b").setResident(true); | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4097408#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...