Manik, This is a minor issue raised by Brian when he is constructing the bean file for AS5. Currently, we have slight way of creating a cache instance from the factory method. In Cache, we do: CacheFactory factory = new DefaultCacheFactory(); CacheSPI tree = (CacheSPI) factory.createCache(c, false); While in PojoCache, we do: cache_ = PojoCacheFactory.createInstance(configFile, false); Nothing wrong with both approaches but maybe we should be consistent in both cache instances. And I don't mind to switch if needed. For me, the reason that I did it in the first place is I don't forsee a pluggable cache instance for PojoCache. And if needed, another Factory can be used as well. I thought originally with your approach, there is more control over the lifecycle methods. But now it is probably not needed there. Any other reason to stick with your approach? Thanks, -Ben _______________________________________________ jbosscache-dev mailing list jbosscache-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jbosscache-dev