It seems that if I evict FQN.ROOT, only evicts nodes at primary level, and not its descendants. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4171097#4171097 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4171097