I'd like to use the MC to wire together cache internals. The cache is basically few core objects (CacheImpl, UnversionedNode) some services (CacheLoaderManager, RPCManager, Notifier, CacheMarshaller, BuddyReplicationManager) and a bunch of interceptors in front of the core objects (TxInterceptor, CacheLoaderInterceptor, etc etc). The relationship between these objects are all controlled by the cache.create() method when the cache starts, which uses a Configuration object to determine which services and interceptors are needed and how they are configured. This is where I think the MC can help; where the services and interceptors can be configured in a beans.xml file, which would control the implementations of each service/interceptor used as well as their relationship, e.g., inject a notifier into the NotificationInterceptor, a CacheLoaderManager into a CacheLoaderInterceptor, etc etc. Regarding end users configuring a -beans.xml file, I would like to expose this as a possibility for "advanced" users, but also provide a much simpler configuration file for more typical use cases (no customisation of interceptors, notifiers, rpc managers, etc., but simple stuff like eviction policies, cache loaders as well as timeouts, cache modes, etc). Maybe a well-designed cache-specific schema would allow me to achieve both in a single file. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4077238#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...