Doh! Of course FileCacheLoader wouldn't work; don't know what I was thinking :( Sorry, zambak, for the noise; thanks, Manik, so saving me with a better solution. carlabramsson's point about the advantage of replicating a pointer to a shared file rather than the image itself is a good one. Makes using the webserver to serve the file a bit trickier though. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3966706#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...