Kabir Khan wrote: I'll try to change what I did in bootstrap to hardwire these beans and see where that gets me:    <bean name="AOPClassLoaderScopingPolicy" class="org.jboss.aop.asintegration.jboss5.VFSClassLoaderScopingPolicy"/>     <bean name="AOPClassPoolFactory" class="org.jboss.classpool.plugins.jbosscl.JBossClDelegatingClassPoolFactory">       <constructor>          <parameter><inject bean="AOPClassLoaderScopingPolicy" property="registry"/></parameter>          <parameter><inject bean="AOPRegisterModuleCallback"/></parameter>       </constructor>    </bean>    <bean name="AOPJBossIntegration" class="org.jboss.aop.asintegration.jboss5.JBoss5Integration">       <property name="classPoolFactory"><inject bean="AOPClassPoolFactory"/></property>       <property name="aopClassLoaderScopingPolicy"><inject bean="AOPClassLoaderScopingPolicy"/></property>    </bean>