diff --git a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/recording/BytecodeRecorderImpl.java b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/recording/BytecodeRecorderImpl.java
index 8c58bba9a0257..956cb7a3584da 100644
--- a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/recording/BytecodeRecorderImpl.java
+++ b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/recording/BytecodeRecorderImpl.java
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
  * <p>
  * - primitives
  * - String
- * - Class (see {@link #classProxy(String)} to handle classes that are not loadable at generation time)
+ * - Class
  * - Objects with a no-arg constructor and getter/setters for all properties
  * - Any arbitrary object via the {@link #registerSubstitution(Class, Class, Class)} mechanism
  * - arrays, lists and maps of the above
diff --git a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/recording/RecorderContext.java b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/recording/RecorderContext.java
index eee6c609da973..85bdddc8f2da4 100644
--- a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/recording/RecorderContext.java
+++ b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/recording/RecorderContext.java
@@ -45,7 +45,10 @@ public interface RecorderContext {
      *
      * @param name The class name
      * @return A Class instance that can be passed to a recording proxy
+     * @deprecated This construct is no longer needed since directly loading deployment/application classes at
+     *             processing time in build steps is now safe
      */
+    @Deprecated
     Class<?> classProxy(String name);
 
     /**
diff --git a/extensions/qute/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/qute/deployment/MessageBundleProcessor.java b/extensions/qute/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/qute/deployment/MessageBundleProcessor.java
index b71f9c4448a2f..08bce6bc71907 100644
--- a/extensions/qute/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/qute/deployment/MessageBundleProcessor.java
+++ b/extensions/qute/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/qute/deployment/MessageBundleProcessor.java
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@
 import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.Record;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.ApplicationArchivesBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.GeneratedClassBuildItem;
-import io.quarkus.deployment.recording.RecorderContext;
 import io.quarkus.gizmo.AssignableResultHandle;
 import io.quarkus.gizmo.BranchResult;
 import io.quarkus.gizmo.BytecodeCreator;
@@ -233,14 +232,15 @@ List<MessageBundleBuildItem> processBundles(BeanArchiveIndexBuildItem beanArchiv
 
     @Record(value = STATIC_INIT)
     @BuildStep
-    void initBundleContext(RecorderContext context, MessageBundleRecorder recorder,
+    void initBundleContext(MessageBundleRecorder recorder,
             List<MessageBundleMethodBuildItem> messageBundleMethods,
             List<MessageBundleBuildItem> bundles,
-            BuildProducer<SyntheticBeanBuildItem> syntheticBeans) {
+            BuildProducer<SyntheticBeanBuildItem> syntheticBeans) throws ClassNotFoundException {
 
         Map<String, Map<String, Class<?>>> bundleInterfaces = new HashMap<>();
         for (MessageBundleBuildItem bundle : bundles) {
-            Class<?> bundleClass = context.classProxy(bundle.getDefaultBundleInterface().toString());
+            final Class<?> bundleClass = Class.forName(bundle.getDefaultBundleInterface().toString(), true,
+                    Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
             Map<String, Class<?>> localeToInterface = new HashMap<>();
             localeToInterface.put(MessageBundles.DEFAULT_LOCALE,
                     bundleClass);
diff --git a/extensions/smallrye-health/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/smallrye/health/deployment/SmallRyeHealthProcessor.java b/extensions/smallrye-health/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/smallrye/health/deployment/SmallRyeHealthProcessor.java
index 3fc0be8137f4b..cb7c1feffccc7 100644
--- a/extensions/smallrye-health/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/smallrye/health/deployment/SmallRyeHealthProcessor.java
+++ b/extensions/smallrye-health/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/smallrye/health/deployment/SmallRyeHealthProcessor.java
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.FeatureBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.LaunchModeBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.ShutdownListenerBuildItem;
-import io.quarkus.deployment.recording.RecorderContext;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.util.ServiceUtil;
 import io.quarkus.kubernetes.spi.KubernetesHealthLivenessPathBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.kubernetes.spi.KubernetesHealthReadinessPathBuildItem;
@@ -123,12 +122,12 @@ void healthCheck(BuildProducer<AdditionalBeanBuildItem> buildItemBuildProducer,
     @BuildStep
     @Record(ExecutionTime.STATIC_INIT)
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
-    void build(SmallRyeHealthRecorder recorder, RecorderContext recorderContext,
+    void build(SmallRyeHealthRecorder recorder,
             BuildProducer<FeatureBuildItem> feature,
             BuildProducer<AdditionalBeanBuildItem> additionalBean,
             BuildProducer<BeanDefiningAnnotationBuildItem> beanDefiningAnnotation,
             BuildProducer<NotFoundPageDisplayableEndpointBuildItem> displayableEndpoints,
-            LaunchModeBuildItem launchModeBuildItem) throws IOException {
+            LaunchModeBuildItem launchModeBuildItem) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
 
         feature.produce(new FeatureBuildItem(Feature.SMALLRYE_HEALTH));
 
@@ -165,8 +164,10 @@ void build(SmallRyeHealthRecorder recorder, RecorderContext recorderContext,
                     String.format("Multiple HealthCheckResponseProvider implementations found: %s", providers));
         }
 
-        recorder.registerHealthCheckResponseProvider(
-                (Class<? extends HealthCheckResponseProvider>) recorderContext.classProxy(providers.iterator().next()));
+        final String provider = providers.iterator().next();
+        final Class<? extends HealthCheckResponseProvider> responseProvider = (Class<? extends HealthCheckResponseProvider>) Class
+                .forName(provider, true, Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
+        recorder.registerHealthCheckResponseProvider(responseProvider);
     }
 
     @BuildStep