Ronald, I certainly don't want to introduce a dependency on Spring! I want to 'de-Springify' my test class. If a general solution is found, I can still wrap it up in some Spring bean if needed. I was rather thinking at comparing our solutions and see if we can make something general and more robust out of it. I think your article about 'how to write tests' should come after the explanation of the test case (it'll be a long post otherwise ;-) Tonight, I'm going to take a look at what Tom has provided and see if it fits what I've implemented. Ronald: Tomorrow I'll be at Devoxx, I'll try to wrap something up before the weekend and mail you the results. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4195546#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...