I'm not sure why you are getting the IllegalAccessError, the Include attribute should expect a String. Most likely you have something hanging around from when you did step 4)? Or did you start again from a fresh installation of jboss app server and jboss aop? Try commenting out the Include so you have | <mbean code="org.jboss.aop.deployment.AspectManagerServiceJDK5" | name="jboss.aop:service=AspectManager"> | <attribute name="EnableLoadtimeWeaving">true</attribute> | <!-- only relevant when EnableLoadtimeWeaving is true --> | <attribute name="SuppressTransformationErrors">true</attribute> | <attribute name="Prune">true</attribute> | <!--attribute name="Include">com.ebrd</attribute--> | <attribute name="Exclude">org.jboss.</attribute> | <attribute name="Optimized">true</attribute> | <attribute name="Verbose">false</attribute> | </mbean> | | <mbean code="org.jboss.aop.deployment.AspectDeployer" | name="jboss.aop:service=AspectDeployer"> | </mbean> | The Include stuff is not needed in your anyway, since anything that does not match the Exclude is automatically included. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4034481#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...