I think I found the answer -- Just put a double slash before your entity names, ie. <region name="//com/company/foobar"> and then the entities will be evicted. There's a post on the Hibernate forum here: https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=941748&start=0 that was posted in April 2005, and says by someone on the Hibernate team, anonymous wrote : Ooops i kinda half noticed that but never really thought about why | before.... It's fixed in CVS. But apparently the fix was lost or they thought they updated some document about it and that was promptly lost.[/url] View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4243338#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...