To answer your questions as numbered: 1) a) You don't need to create your cache in jboss-cache-manager-jboss-beans.xml unless it needs to be available to the standard clustering services JBoss AS ships. You could include the config declaration in the SPECjAppServer-jboss-beans.xml file along with the CacheJmxWrapper. b) See http://www.jboss.org/file-access/default/members/jbosscache/freezone/docs... pages 31 and 32 for an example. 2) No. EJB2 entity bean caching doesn't use JBC. For EJB2 entities JBoss AS supports a mechanism for invalidating beans out of a local cache when the bean is updated on another node. See page 83 in http://docs.jboss.org/jbossas/clustering/JBossClustering7.pdf. 3) I can't comment on this; not too familiar with the new stuff. 4) I think you're asking what name the EJB 2 container will expect, but it won't be expecting anything as it doesn't integrate with JBC. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4211997#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...