Ales did again: 'default' boots in 25-30 secs in my mid-range laptop with the new deployment scanning filters (~25% improvement). See deployers/metadata-deployer-jboss-beans.xml. It basically says do not scan our own files in /deploy for annotations (e.g. jbossweb.sar, etc.) There is also a feature for the user to specify his own annotation scanning filters in jboss-scanning.xml included with a deployed application. We just need some wiki/examples for that from Ales :-) Good stuff! /Dimitris