Guys, I've made some notes around the upcoming releases of JBC 2.x over here: http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=RoadMapOverview Key things are: 2.1.0: adds no new features, but is an architectural cleanup. JBoss AOP for interceptors (no more hand-wired interceptor chains) which allows us to apply this to Nodes directly, and JBoss MC for IOC which allows us to ditch a lot of the custom configuration stuff and allows us to cleanly parameterise tests. Tests can get more sophisticated and targeted this way as well, since injecting stubs at any level becomes easy. Also makes the codebase a lot leaner since we will throw out a lot of the boilerplate stuff. 2.2.0: Partitioning. I have an initial design on this which Bela, Galder and myself came up with while in Neuchatel. Will wiki-ise this for more discussion and improvement. 2.3.0: Executors and Functors. Please do have a look, I'd love to hear thoughts and comments. Cheers, -- Manik Surtani Lead, JBoss Cache JBoss, a division of Red Hat Email: manik(a)jboss.org Telephone: +44 7786 702 706 MSN: manik(a)surtani.org Yahoo/AIM/Skype: maniksurtani