CacheLoader persistent item should have an age limit ---------------------------------------------------- Key: JBCACHE-318 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCACHE-318 Project: JBoss Cache Issue Type: Task Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Reporter: Ben Wang Assigned To: Manik Surtani Fix For: 2.1.0.GA Original Estimate: 2 weeks Remaining Estimate: 2 weeks Currently items that are persisted has no notion of age out. So let's say it is fairly common in SFSB to have the state not live more than 2 weeks in the store, for example. The other usage is when the cache crashed and the persistent store won't get cleaned up even when the items are orphaned. Bela refused to put this functionality in the cache loader layer. So Manik's idea is to wrap around the object in the CacheStoreInterceptor with an additional timestamp. This way an offline thread can come in and clean them. We can also check how does the current SFSB does this?