After some thought, I have decided not to have a separate POJO-based eviction policy since semantically it is just not correct. Instead, I choose to go with underlying plain cache passivation. Please this jira for detailed explanation: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCACHE-450 As a result, there will not be any eviction/activation/passivation emitted from the PojoCache level. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3960888#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...