I recently started to play around with the latest version of JME and noticed a major issue. Loading in my 3ds models takes much longer than it did with my older version. I'm not sure which version I was using since I just made a jar file and didn't update till now.
The only lines of code I've changed to get the latest version to work is the texture loading stuff - going from the texturekey to the resource collector - and changing from
import com.jmex.model.XMLparser.Converters.MaxToJme;
to
import com.jmex.model.converters.MaxToJme;
By much slower I mean from 30sec load to about 3 min load times.