RE: [Opensymphony-oscache] Deadlock using GeneralCacheAdministrator

Sounds like the classic dining philosophers problem. You need to ensure that 
locks are aquired in the same order from all parts of your code.

Since OSCache has no knowledge of JBoss or its mutexes, I'm not sure there's 
much that can be done from the OSCache side of the fence (even using 
non-blocking retrieves will potentially cause problems with entries that 
don't exist, since simultaneous requests for a non-exisitant entry will 
still block). You need to ensure that all code paths that potentially use 
both a JBoss transaction and make an OSCache retrieve always result in these 
two locks being aquired in the same order. Sound reasonable?