"BruceSpringfield" wrote : Correction: out-of-box installation startup is 23 seconds. With my apps deployed, then it turns into 57 seconds. I guess, the startup time increases/varies when your application is deployed. Does your application do anything on startup? Maybe some database activity or any other such initialization which might be taking its own time. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4078040#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...