"adrian(a)jboss.org" wrote : | I've made no quantative effort on this subject and I personally am | not going to look at optimization until we get closer to the final release. | "Early optimization is the root of all evil". :-) And even then the main optimization effort should be spent on the runtime not the deployment. It's perfectly acceptable to slow down the bootstrap to improve runtime performance. e.g. the classloader creates an index of every package in every jar deployed to speed up the classloading during the runtime. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4065902#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...