I am not sure whether I should butt in, but oops, I already did! Just want to let you know that we have ditched scoping logn ago by patching remoting AND aop libraries on the appserver. We have been successfully running our servers since then and we have not encountered any issues. I agree with Tim, it's quite a big headache scoping JBM. I vote for 'get rid of scoping - go for patching' :) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4037636#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...