"kabir.khan(a)jboss.com" wrote : You added the @HasInstanceAnnotaiton to the @JMX annotation which causes the JMXDecoratedTestCase to fail. I have reverted that change, but it causes your HasInstanceAnnotation test to fail. See this discussion: - http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4140167#... And these two JIRAs: - http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBMDR-21 - http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBMICROCONT-279 What's the usage of @JMX in that JMXDecoratedTC, apart for marking the bean to register it into MBeanServer? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4140896#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...