It seems that the embedded ejb which is needed by testng was not started correctly. I did not change the default configuration which was generated by seam-gen. How should I change it to make the embedded container work with testng? For now I'm not mocking any DB or doing integration test, but the simplest unit test could not execute... I tried to instantiate a stateful backing bean in the simple test class. Something like this: anonymous wrote : | public class FooUseCaseTest extends SeamTest{ | | @Test | public void testStartOver() throws Exception { | Foo foo = new FooImpl(); | foo.startOver(); // the field bar is initialized in the startOver() method | assert foo.bar != null; | } | } | | but did not work, error was always the same, like above. The console shows that jboss-seam.jar was found, and jars like jboss-seam-ioc, jboss-seam-remoting, etc. were also found. But I did not see any component initializing. When I was running "ant testexample" under in the seam distribution directory, I did see a lot more console output showing the embedded container was initializing.... Could anyone please help? Thanks! Regards, Ellen View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4056886#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...