"kabir.khan(a)jboss.com" wrote : 6) I don't think it is a memory leak, since the CtClasses need to be cached, and in AS we create/drop the pools when the classloaders are deployed/undeployed. It might be redundant as you say though. What I meant is that it is pointless to add a ctclass to the softcache if you're also adding it to the hard reference cache at the same time... it won't be gc'ed. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4241207#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...