We upgraded from JBoss 4 (and JDK 5) to JBoss 5 (and JDK 6). The problem is that the start time has gone from 1.5 minutes (on JBoss 4) to more than 4 minutes.
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See http://community.jboss.org/wiki/jboss5xtuningslimming especially the "Tuning" part.