Attribute name	Example	Default
validity-timeout	15000	No default
Tag name		File
orion-ejb-jar/enterprise-beans/entity-deployment		orion-ejb.jar.xml

The maximum amount of time (in millis) that an entity is valid in the cache (before being reloaded). Useful for loosely coupled environments where rare updates from legacy systems occur. This attribute is only valid when exclusive-write-access="true" (the default).