If it helps, I extended DefaultCacheFactory and added my own little factory method that accepts an input stream. The method looks like: public Cache createCache(InputStream is, boolean start) throws ConfigurationException { | XmlConfigurationParser parser = new XmlConfigurationParser(); | Configuration c = parser.parseStream(is); | return createCache(c, start); | } | Of course, it should be possible to _not_ extend the factory and create a cache in a similar manner. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4035949#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...