For AS 5.1 you can use the EJB 3.1 Embeddable prototype http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/EJB31Embeddable The latest version can also deploy datasources and JPA entities. Properties properties = new Properties(); | container = EJBContainer.createEJBContainer(properties); | | on(container).deploy( | deployment(resource("explicit/ds-deployers-beans.xml")), | deployment("default-ds", | NonXADataSourceDeploymentMetaData.class, | localDataSource() | .connectionURL("jdbc:hsqldb:mem:defaultdb") | .driverClass("org.jboss.ejb3.embedded.test.common.HSQLDBService") | .jndiName("java:/DefaultDS") | .user("sa") | .password("") | .getMetaData() | )); | | on(container).deploy( | deployment( | pkg("org.jboss.ejb3.embedded.test.stateless"), | persistence( | unit("tempdb") | .jtaDataSource("java:/DefaultDS") | .property("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", "create-drop") | ))); | View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4235087#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...