You call three containers "without any managed environment"? :) What I also don't understand: If you disable JMS and EJB in Embeddable JBoss, it is effectively the same as a pure JBoss MC (JTA, JNDI). Why is that not sufficient? (Yes, I know that Embeddable JBoss requires a whole bunch of configuration files that never change - some of them can be packaged in a JAR to make things simpler, for the rest complain to Bill Burke.) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4062069#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...