"wolfc" wrote : Well, you're not showing the entire trace, but my guess is it won't get any better. :-) | | Raise a Jira. I hate these kind of errors. The only way to fix it would be to not use Class.getAnnotation{s}() and instead do it ourselves with javassist. I'm more inclined to raise it as a bug with Sun (need to test it with the latest Java6). It should at least give some indication of the missing class. :-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4104618#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...