Pre-loading the cache

Question

I'm attempting to pre-load the cache with data and have implemented controllable caches as per this document (http://wiki.tangosol.com/display/COH35UG/Sample+CacheStores). My cache stores are configured as write-behind with a 2s delay:
<cache-config>
     <caching-scheme-mapping>
     <cache-mapping>
          <cache-name>PARTY_CACHE</cache-name>
          <scheme-name>party_cache</scheme-name>
     </cache-mapping>
     </caching-scheme-mapping>
     <caching-schemes>
          <distributed-scheme>
            <scheme-name>party_cache</scheme-name>
            <service-name>partyCacheService</service-name>
            <thread-count>5</thread-count>
            <backing-map-scheme>
                <read-write-backing-map-scheme>
                     <write-delay>2s</write-delay>
                    <internal-cache-scheme>
                        <local-scheme/>
                    </internal-cache-scheme>
                    <cachestore-scheme>
                        <class-scheme>
                            <class-name>spring-bean:partyCacheStore</class-name>
                        </class-scheme>
                    </cachestore-scheme>
                </read-write-backing-map-scheme>
            </backing-map-scheme>
            <autostart>true</autostart>
        </distributed-scheme>
     </caching-schemes>
</cache-config>
public static void enable(String storeName) {
        CacheFactory.getCache(CacheNameEnum.CONTROL_CACHE.name()).put(storeName, Boolean.TRUE);
public static void disable(String storeName) {
        CacheFactory.getCache(CacheNameEnum.CONTROL_CACHE.name()).put(storeName, Boolean.FALSE);
public static boolean isEnabled(String storeName) {
        return ((Boolean) CacheFactory.getCache(CacheNameEnum.CONTROL_CACHE.name()).get(storeName)).booleanValue();
public void store(Object key, Object value) {
        if (isEnabled(getStoreName())) {
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Store method not currently supported");
    }The problem I have is that what seems to be happening is:
1) bulk loading process calls disable() on the cache store
2) cache is loaded with data
3) bulk loading process calls enable() on the cache store ready for normal operation
4) the service thread starts to attempt to store the data as the check to see if the store is enabled returns true because we set it to true in step 3
so is there a way of temporarily disabling the write-delay or changing it programatically so step 4 doesn't happen?

Answer 1

Adding
Thread.sleep(10000);after loading the data seems to solve the problem but this seems dirty, any better solutions?