I made a small modification to the EJBTestCase so you can use it more generically to run tests inside the appserver. Before, it always started a UserTransaction which makes it difficult to run tests where you want to start a transaction yourself. To workaround this issue, you can now say you don't want the UserTransaction with an env-entry, e.g. <session> <description>JUnit Session Bean Test Runner</description> <ejb-name>EJBTestRunnerEJB</ejb-name> <home>org.jboss.test.util.ejb.EJBTestRunnerHome</home> <remote>org.jboss.test.util.ejb.EJBTestRunner</remote> <ejb-class>org.jboss.test.util.ejb.EJBTestRunnerBean</ejb-class> <session-type>Stateless</session-type> <transaction-type>Bean</transaction-type> <env-entry> <env-entry-name>NO_USER_TRANSACTION</env-entry-name> <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type> <env-entry-value>true</env-entry-value> </env-entry> </session> -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Adrian Brock Chief Scientist JBoss, a division of Red Hat xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx