Jonas2.0 caching issue

[aamerG]

Hi everyone, I am deploying a stateless session bean which populates 2 Hashtables from bunch of Entity beans.  Problem:: the session bean does not seem to be caching itself . we can easily observe the long time it takes to populate the Hashtables everytime the Stateless bean is called . Deploying the bean as Stateful did not increase the performance at all. Any suggestions ?? How can one tell if the bean is in cache ?   Thanks in advance