First of all, in the time it took me to read a couple chapters of Bloch, Stansberry did all this. :) I don't want to step on toes, so I've committed the changes to SimpleStatefulCache directly without bringing it into ejb3-cache and out of Core. It's testable enough for now. To revisit in greater depth tomorrow. S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4185939#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...