I hope to present a detailed picture of my understanding of what you want tomorrow (Friday) which we can use to move forward. One question though: from what I have read, the microcontainer (MC) has limitations, in particular that remote communication is not supported at present. I assume this means that, say, in a test case based on MicrocontainerTestCase, that the JMS provider, deployed destinations, and test case itself all have to reside in the same VM. (Please correct me if i'm mistaken). So running test cases using the MC, despite this limitation, makes sense when we are outside the AS, as there is no alternative. However, what if JMX (which supports remote communication) is available?. You mentioned in an earlier posting that tests should be written against the MC. Does this mean that you want to run these generic JMS tests against the MC, even when the AS is available? That is, in the AS test suite, to run all JMS tests (whether against the JBossMQ provider or Messaging preovider) by deploying these providers to the MC and not JMX? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3976447#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...