"scott.stark(a)jboss.org" wrote : | It was, but this is the problem of trying to call an overloaded method from within a ctor. the SynthenticDirEntryHandler.initCacheLastModified does not exist at that point, and so is not used. | No, that's not how OO works. ;-) The overloaded method should be used. Try it out, I did :-), since you did get me confused for a bit. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4133395#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...