I've just had a brief look at the Jakarta Cactus and it look promising. I will investigate and see if I can get it to work for my needs. AS far as connecting as a client it depends what you mean. I had considered using a test running like Watir and Ruby to test the application via http request response. I will use this approach for high level business case tests but I've found that the speed of these type of tests make it difficult to get high degrees of test coverage. If you meant connecting directly to the EJBs vie a remote interface, I hadn't considered that. Thanks for your reply much appreciated, gave me something to consider. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4043109#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...