An Interceptor is an abstract class, several of which comprise an interceptor chain. It exposes an invoke() method, which must be overridden by implementing classes to add behaviour to a call before passing the call down the chain by calling super.invoke() .

JBoss Cache ships with several interceptors, representing different configuration options, some of which are:

The interceptor chain configured for your cache instance can be obtained and inspected by calling CacheSPI.getInterceptorChain() , which returns an ordered List of interceptors.