There really should be options you can set to override loading from the cache loader, or for ignoring the return values for Node.put(key, value) or Node.remove(key) . You should be able to remove the interceptors after you load to disable loading and saving. It would be nice if there was a "disable()" method on Interceptor. Interceptor.invoke() might have been public/final and delegated to a protected abstract method ... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4063803#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...