At a glance it looks fine. How many classes do you have in your large jar? As you say it might be an idea to narrow down what you want to weave, packaging them up in a separate jar will have no effect though. Try using the Include/Exclude attributes of the AspectManagerService. http://labs.jboss.com/jbossaop/docs/1.5.0.GA/docs/aspect-framework/refere... Exclude maps onto jboss.aop.exclude and Include maps onto jboss.aop.include View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4051435#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...