Based on the lack of responses to users queries and general lack of developer involvement here would it be fair to say that this project is pretty much dead?
I note that this is a JBoss "acquired" technology rather than home grown, is there a better place to get answers to queries and find an actual community?
Well, I guess Javassist is still active, since on Janauary 2008 it has been released the 3.6 release, but the JBoss page seems not up to date.