Based on an earlier thread on this forum that I started, and their response from JBoss (which I think was from you, Manik!) asking how to avoid notification on put, we call setCacheModeLocal(true) for puts of data read from the database as opposed to puts of new data. Will that not accomplish what we want? Also, how would calling putForExternalRead solve the TimeoutException? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4212378#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...