In JBC 1.x, operations should never take place on the Node directly. E.g., don't do | cache.get("/a/b/", "key").clear(); | Instead, do: | cache.removeData("/a/b/"); | The specific reason why you still see the data is because operations on the nodes do not go through the interceptor stack, so while you may clear the node in memory, you may not clear it in cache loaders, etc. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3995373#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...