The "jboss:internal:..." data key indicates that the node was evicted to disk and thus if accessed again should be loaded from disk. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4017151#4017151 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4017151