Exactly, in my environment I am seeing precisely that: cache.evict() fails to evict. I wrote up what I thought was the root cause for of this failure: pfer writes to one (non-tx) context, while evict looks in another (please see my post right above yours) Could you please point out where in above reasoning I may be making a mistake (obviously being new to JBC I don't quite understand the internals yet)? fwiw, when I rebuilt jbc with pfer NOT using failSilently, evict-after-pfer started to work. However, it is true that thus far I am unable to replicate this failure in a jbc test suite test - so it is quite possible that the problem is not with JBC Core but, for example, with my setup or hibernate-jbosscache2 integration. thanks -nikita View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4216663#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...