This is very close to what you are trying to achieve. Perhaps instead of making them unshared, you could create a singleton cache loader? This will solve the problem of "A ignoring the packets it creates", as you say? anonymous wrote : | Also, it looks like the true tag is ignored for the TcpDelegatingCacheLoader | Which true tag? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4020655#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...