Hello, I'm committing the passivation caches for stateful and entity beans. Many new classes, few modifications to the instance int'rs and to the entity synchronization int'r. The caches required some utility classes (under org.jboss.util), in particular FYI: 1) A priority queue (Heap) 2) A CachePolicy interface that allow different implementation of cache policies (LRU, MRU, Random, etc) 3) A LRUCachePolicy implementation that can be (re)used by who is interested in having such a caching policy (last arguments were PreparedStatements and Security stuff) 4) A couple TimerQueue - TimerTask that allows you to create TimerTasks that do a particular job at certain times; the task can be periodic or one-shot, and can be canceled from the queue. The queue executes the tasks when they expire and all the tasks are executed in a single thread. 5) A worker queue that executes Executable tasks in a separate thread (in my case used for the passivation). About the bean caches, there are 2 cache policies implemented: the LRU one and the NoPassivation one. I also modified the standardjboss.xml file so that now the containers have by default the passivating caches turned on. I'll commit in few days also the EJX modifications to generate the new jboss.xml files; for the meanwhile I ask your help to update the existing ones (eg in jbosstest jars) following the new standardjboss.xml; if you specify the tag: <container-cache-conf> then it is mandatory to have the tag <CachePolicy>...</CachePolicy> All the other tags of the cache configuration are optionals (ie capacities and cache-policy-conf). It will probably take a while, wait for a "done" message. I will also post further info on the cache implementation, give me some time. Enjoy Simon
