What does this change actually do? It just seems to create a new connection and store it in threadlocal when the cacheloader is constructed, and that's it. So all it does is store a conn for a particular thread (the one that starts the cache). Other threads will still have to call getConnection() each time with a prepare(). Am I missing something, how does this result in being able to deal with capacity better? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3977301#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...