Best way is probably to use your own timer thread and then do a get from DB and then put to the cache. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3973678#3973678 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3973678