Using the file cache loader in this manner will not work, since the file cache loader serialises the attribute map of the node into a single file. Your webserver will not be able to parse and serve up this file. Perhaps this approach may help: 1) Single, JDBC based cache loader 2) Uploading an image will result in the servlet converting the file to a byte[] and putting this in cache (so it gets stored in the db) 3) Register a cache listener on the cache, which when a node is created, your cache listener writes the byte[] to your filesystem in a specified place, in the file format specified. 4) Since the cache will replicate it's contents, this will trigger cache listeners on each instance in your cluster, so the file is created on the filesystems on each cluster node. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3966619#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...