"adrian(a)jboss.org" wrote : In future, always think carefully before introducing additional | (non-trivial or non-optional) thirdparty dependencies | to a project. This should be as big a decision as changing the spi. Noted. But the main problem here is, like you already pointed, is that JBossCache doesn't have proper split - Cache(Factory) being in spi, the impl details in some other part, which we wouldn't pull in, except for tests. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4162821#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...