I am trying to use TestNG to test persist operations in classes extended from EntityHome. I create an Entity Manager and use this to set the entity Manger in Entity Home. I use the persist method from EntityHome , but when i try to commit the transaction i get anonymous wrote : java.lang.IllegalStateException: No application context active anonymous wrote : [testng] Hibernate: insert into X2USER (name, id) values (?, ?) | [testng] 31-May-2007 16:43:49 org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl close | [testng] INFO: closing | [testng] 31-May-2007 16:43:49 org.hibernate.connection.DriverManagerConnectionProvider close | [testng] INFO: cleaning up connection pool: jdbc:oracle:thin:@******** | [testng] Creating C:\dev\workspace\testp1\test-report\Currency Test.html | [testng] FAILED: test.RegisterActionTest.testRegisterAction() | [testng] java.lang.IllegalStateException: No application context active I don't get this problem if I just use entity manager outside of EntityHome. Is this a feasible thing to try to do ? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4050233#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...