"david.lloyd(a)jboss.com" wrote : | What if there was a substantial speed increase and memory footprint decrease associated with doing so? That's the question I think we need to explore here. | No. As all the complex/slow processing should be done by the tool, pre-runtime. Deserializing + reattaching annotation repository is O(1). If you need this info runtime, I would bet there is little gain whether you code it against ext libs or hack it yourself. And I much more like to use ext libs, where I can complain if something doesn't work, instead of everyone bothering me. ;-) (welcome to VFS bothering .... ) "david.lloyd(a)jboss.com" wrote : | And that's what I'm doing. | Sure, but that doesn't mean you should rewrite everything that you don't like. ;-) btw: how is Remoting3 coming along ... :-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4261327#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...