Thanks genman, but my app and the cache are both fully started. In fact, using Node directly instead of TreeCache works. The problem this way is that interceptors dont get called, which may prevent getting evicted nodes. what I want to know is if this jira is a bug, and why it wont be fixed, or if its a feature, which i dont get. thanks. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4111452#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...