Exactly. JBoss AOP instruments the classes in load time, matching pointcut expressions and associating the classes to advisors, if you are using load time weaving mode. So, once the class has been loaded by the JVM, you know the pointcut matching has already occurred for that class. All loaded instrumented classes (whose one or more join points is matched by one or more pointcut) are associated to an Advisor. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3996346#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...