I switched my local AS5 copy to AOP 'snapshot" and see a 20% improvement :-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4134839#4134839 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4134839