"kabir.khan(a)jboss.com" wrote : | I think from your answer that you are saying that we want the aop integration to be deployd as part of the server bootstrap? Meaning that the aspect deployer and the @JMX stuff is available by the time we get to scanning the deploy folder. In which case moving all the required bits into jboss/lib should be fine? Yes, moving this to the bootstrap lib should be fine. It does bring up the issue of javassist users now being coupled to that version, so we will run into the issue of javassit being an implementation detail of the mc, or part of its public api that other deployments should interact with. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3984088#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...