I'm having trouble removing a cache from a DefaultCacheManager while inside a transactional method.  The code I am using follows which is called from another method that is marked as @Transactional.  I am currently using Atomikos from within a spring managed application to handle transactions.

<code>

Cache cacheToRemove = cacheManager.getCache(name, false);

if (cacheToRemove != null)

{

  cacheToRemove.clear();

  cacheManager.removeCache(name);

} 

</code>

In debugging the issue, it seems the code in the org.infinispan.transaction.TransactionTable.shutdownGracefully() method loops until there are no transactions that are current or until it times out.  It seems that because I'm removing the cache within a transaction, this will always timeout.  I guess my question is, am I doing the right steps to remove a cache, and if so, is it possible to remove a cache from within a transaction? Should it be run asynchronously?  If so, is that a configuration setting or do I need to spin up the thread myself?

Thank you for any help that can be provided.