ok... just asked because I remember some requirements for annotation scanning without classloading (http://community.jboss.org/wiki/PapakiAnnotationScanningRequirements , aop section), but don't actually know the status of that.
You can still have this option, if you use Javassist based JBossReflect.
While we would still load the annotations, the actual owning classes won't be loaded -- see here:
* http://java.dzone.com/articles/jboss-microcontainer-scanning
But since this is probably only needed when doing some bytecode manipulation, e.g. AOP,
we actually by default already load the classes, as JDK's reflection currently still out performs Javassist's.