"kabir.khan(a)jboss.com" wrote : If I try to run the test again (with jboss still running), I get the error you are mentioning | | The Base class lives in the nested .aop file, so it seems that the second time round it is not looking at the nested .aop file The DeploymentContext going into the deployment process looks the same to me so I don't know why it would differ between deployments. I'll drill into the class loader creation. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3981363#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...