[galder.zamarreno]

I actually do like Galder's suggestion about making this a JMX operation though - being able to purge the cache loader

a) without the need to restart the app server
b) without risk of forgetting to switch this off
c) cleaner cache loader configuration

Would an approach like this work for the use case?

That's exactly what I had in mind. A use case where the customer is
interested in purging data (without the need to restart Cache)
sporadically.

If there's use case for these operations to be executed more often, that's
when purging based on data age or every so often (every
month/week/day..etc) will become important.

[eschulma]

A JMX operation to manually flush the cache would be extremely userful. I am glad that remove(/) will work but before reading this forum I had no idea how to do it. A function called flush() would have been a lot more obvious...just my 2 cents.