There are no techinques described there, but anyway, as I wrote in my previous posts I do not want to deploy (create and start) the cache from within an EJB, but I will access it and manipulate it's contents. I was asking about the implication of this since the underlaying implementation might be executing IO instructions/thread management/etc. that are highly unrecomended by the J2EE specification to be done in a context of an EJB container. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3989726#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...