I think this is more a JPA/Hibernate question. You need to explicitly tell Hibernate to use the cached results using a query hint. I'd use a named query, though. You'd do: | @NamedQuery( | name="findXXX", | query="from xxx", | hints={(a)QueryHint(name="org.hibernate.cacheable", value="true"), | @QueryHint(name="org.hibernate.cacheRegion", value="com.xyz"} | ) | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4137563#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...