Hi, found a bug, which is related to a slow startup as discussed in the other thread.
See: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TOMEE-2258 the lookup: loader.loadClass("org.apache.openejb.bval.BValCdiFilter") fails with a ClassNotFound could someone check this? We could easily change it to Class.forName - but not sure what is the correct classloader. We should definitily fix such bugs as the startup with TomEE8, compared to TomEE7, is double as slow. Best regards, Thomas