Hello all,

We have an application that works fine on JBoss 5.1 but not on JBoss 6, the problem is related to the annotation.

Quick question, it seems that an annotation scanning is done during the start of JBoss because I have a problem of classloading order.

When I use isAnnotationPresent it returns true on JBoss 5 / false on JBoss 6. I don't know if jboss-mdr.jar is involved or not.

More details:

The annotation is used during the load of a SAR during the the start of JBoss, it has a dependency on the HA Singleton.

I checked that the Service (SAR) has the two jars in its classpath:

     1st. A Jar file inside the SAR

     2nd. A reference via the jboss-service (with the class refence) and we put all stuff in a specific Classloader domain

     and I checked the  JBoss ClassLoader --> My Service Class Loader (all jars are here)

When I looked at the Class.forName("MYClassA or MyClassB").getClassLoader() --> I have the same reference for JBoss 5 and JBoss 6.

I am thinking of a change in the annotation loading, I looked at the jboss-scanning but it does not work or silent exception.

Does anyone can confirm that JBoss tries to load annotation during the boot time in order to speed up the load of a class.

I am lost after a long search....

Any idea or help is welcome

Thanks