anonymous wrote : | My interpretation is that atijms want to get an exclusive lock on '/a/b/n1' regardless of read or write operation. If this is correct then repeatable_read would not solve the issue. | Yes, if this is the case then R_R won't help. Option.setForceWriteLock() should only acquire a WL on the target node (leaf). If it does so for every parent node as well, then this is a bug. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4050334#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...