I was basically thinking all of them; for anything used by PojoCache we could add a getter/setter. I think Ben is going to use delegation in PojoCache instead of subclassing, so maybe it's good to wait until he's done that so we don't add getter/setters for fields he won't need after his refactor. This came up because I'm creating a StateTransferManager for JBCACHE-465 so Ben can do what he wants with a PojoCache-specific version. I was adding the field for it and didn't want to add another protected field :) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3959287#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...