When you say the "user part of the app will just hadle it as a regular image file" do you mean the web container will serve it as an image? A possibility that comes to mind is to use a chaining cache loader, with unshared FileCacheLoader in front of a shared JDBCCacheLoader. The FileCacheLoader is configured to write its files to a place the web container will read. One the user server, the JDBCCacheLoader has <ignoreModifications>true</ignoreModifications> in its config, so when a change replicates from the admin server, it doesn't get rewritten to the DB. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3966514#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...