The regression is due to a bug fix in the annotation processing. It was not always checking the Advisor.metadata when checking annotations for methods, this has now been added, but slows it down. The main underlying problem is that the pointcut matchers work on strings, but to check for the annotations in the metadata repository (org.jboss.metadata.spi.MetaData.isAnnotationPresent()) we need to convert the String into a Class, by attempting to load the class. All in all, that means a lot of attempts to load classes. I don't see an easy fix for this View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4127387#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...