The original cause of Exception in container is lost if exception is of type InvocationTargetException ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: ARQ-1808 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ARQ-1808 Project: Arquillian Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: Base Implementation Affects Versions: 1.1.5.Final Reporter: Aslak Knutsen Assignee: Aslak Knutsen Fix For: 1.1.6.Final As oppose to most other Exceptions, InvocationTargetException does not use the cause field as the cause of the InvocationTargetException, rather it uses target. When the ExceptionProxy recreates the Exceptions from the container side on the client side, the actual cause of the InvocationTargetException is lost. The only cause you get is something like: Could not create ManagerImpl.