On JBossMessaging we have a super class where we use setUp and tearDown to synchronize server and client logs. http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/messaging/trunk/tests/src/org/jboss/test/m... It is true though we aways call super.tearDown and super.setUp in all sub classes. Maybe it's possible to do the same thing with some double check on sub-classes. Example: http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/messaging/trunk/tests/src/org/jboss/test/m... I don't know how this would behave with deployment setups from JBossTestCase, but it is a good idea to at least have the className on server side. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4042015#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...