Looking at your scenario I think this is expected behaviour. cache.remove() will remove the node and all it's children. When you use a cache loader, this behaviour is passed on to the cache loader too. So when you do cache.remove("/a") this will remove /a and all its children both in memory and in the cache loader. So I'm not surprised that when you then to a cache.get("/a/b/c") you get null. :) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4157345#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...