SESSION DESCRIPTION Implementing a value based caching system non-transparently in a data driven distributed application is straightforward. However, this demands repetitive implementation for each such application. The generality of the problem permits us to move the implementation into the middleware, with minimal support from the application and domain specific details. To bear out this idea, we choose the open-source J2EE application server - JBoss as the middleware supporting the distributed system and stateless session beans as the remote components performing the cacheable work.