Thanks for the quick reply Bela. I think do understand the way the MuxChannels work. My problem was more specific to using MuxChannels with TreeCache. After further investigation, it turns out that in the following code: TreeCache cache = new TreeCache(muxChannel); PropertyConfigurator config = new PropertyConfigurator(); config.configure(cache, CACHE_CONFIG); The PropertyConfigurator seems to be culprit. Somehow when I use the PropertyConfigurator my cache doesn't seem to start. If I get rid of the PropertyConfigurator, everything seems to work fine. Am I missing something obvious here ... Thanks, Arun View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3985843#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...