"supi" wrote : | | I disagree. When a cache stops, you should lose the ability to operate on the data through the cache interface. I've never seen a database deleting tables when you stop the db server/agent. | | A cache is not a database. A database is, by definition, persistent storage so such behaviour is nonsensical for a db. And this is why caches delegate persistence to dbs - in JBC's case using a cache loader. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4068533#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...