I was able to get this working with this code: CacheSPI cacheSpi = (CacheSPI) cache; CacheStoreInterceptor csi = null; int index = 0; for (Object o : cacheSpi.getInterceptorChain()) { if (o instanceof CacheStoreInterceptor) { csi = (CacheStoreInterceptor) o; break; } index++; } cacheSpi.removeInterceptor(CacheStoreInterceptor.class); rootNode.removeChild("mostlyStaticDataNode"); cacheSpi.addInterceptor(csi, index); rootNode.getChild("mostlyStaticDataNode"); Basically, I remove the cache store interceptor before removing the child (this removes the local node but doesn't touch the database). I then add the interceptor back and retrieve the node. This will "refresh" the node from the database. Of course, there are a couple problems with this code. The first is that I'm casting Cache to CacheSPI which I know is not recommended. The second is that it's pretty much a hack. Is there a more elegant way to accomplish this? Dustin View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4238644#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...