I got latest Tomee 1.1 snapshot. I added src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/exclusions.list with this content (stuff you recommended is at the end):
ApacheJMeter XmlSchema- activation- activeio- activemq- aether- antlr- aopalliance- avalon-framework- axis- axis2- bcprov- bval-core bval-jsr c3p0- catalina- cglib- commons-beanutils commons-cli- commons-codec- commons-collections- commons-dbcp commons-dbcp-all-1.3- commons-digester- commons-discovery- commons-httpclient- commons-io- commons-lang- commons-lang3- commons-logging- commons-logging-api- commons-net- commons-pool- cssparser- cxf- deploy.jar derby- derbyclient- derbynet- dom4j- ecj- eclipselink- fusemq-leveldb- geronimo- google- gragent.jar groovy- gson guice- hamcrest- hawtdispatch- hibernate- howl- hsqldb- htmlunit- httpclient- httpcore- icu4j- idb- idea_rt.jar jackson-mapper-asl- jasypt- javaee- javaee-api javassist- javaws.jar javax. jaxb- jaxp- jboss- jbossall- jbosscx- jbossjts- jbosssx- jcommander- jersey- jettison- jetty- jline jmdns- joda-time- jsoup- jsp-api jsr299- jsr311- juli- junit- kahadb- leveldb log4j- logkit- maven- mbean-annotation-api- mimepull- mina- mqtt-client- myfaces-api myfaces-impl neethi- nekohtml- openejb-api openejb-client openejb-cxf-bundle openejb-cxf-transport openejb-derby openejb-ejbd openejb-hsql openejb-http openejb-javaagent openejb-jee openejb-jsf openejb-jstl openejb-loader openejb-openwebbeans openejb-server openjpa- opensaml- openwebbeans- openws- ops4j- org.eclipse. org.junit. org.osgi.core- pax- plexus- quartz- rmock- saaj- sac- scannotation- serializer- serp- servlet-api- slf4j- snappy-java- spring- sshd- stax-api- surefire- swizzle- testng- tomcat- tomee- wagon- webbeans-ee webbeans-ejb webbeans-impl webbeans-spi woodstox-core-asl- wsdl4j- wss4j- wstx-asl- xalan- xbean- xercesImpl- xml-apis- xml-resolver- xmlrpc- xmlschema- xmlsec- xmltooling- xmlunit- activation- avro- bcmail- bcprov- commons-email commons-fileupload filters- freemarker- hibernate-search itext- jackson- java-image- joda-time- lucene- paranamer- poi- primefaces- scribe- snappy- usertype jgroups- postgresql- drools- picket ui- Startup time is the same 18 sec. I even tried putting exclusion.list under Tomee conf folder, same thing. -- View this message in context: http://openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/war-packaged-exclusions-list-tp4656366p4656466.html Sent from the OpenEJB User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.