The problem is hasBeenModified() causing trashing of the cache due to the first call always returning false. I have updated this method to not return true when cachedLastModified is uninitialized and the startup time is back down to 14s. | public boolean hasBeenModified() throws IOException | { | boolean hasBeenModified = false; | long last = getLastModified(); | if (cachedLastModified != last) | { | hasBeenModified = cachedLastModified != 0; | cachedLastModified = last; | } | return hasBeenModified; | } | I have created a 2.0.0.Beta2 release of the vfs. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3994908#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...