Your test is flawed. When something is evicted from memory, it no longer exists in memory but still exists in the cache loader. So when you do a cache.get() the cache sees that the data is not in memory and then proceeds to check if it is in the cache loader (which it is) and then loads data from there. Change the test to check cache.exists() rather than cache.get(). cache.exists will bypass cache loaders. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4052501#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...