Unfortunately it didn't work either. I removed the ejb annotations and made it a POJO. Then I injected entityManager using @In, I got a similar problem, the root of which is due to the micro-container (and the JNDI) not available before the starting up of the bean: anonymous wrote : | [testng] 09:49:46,453 INFO [Component] Component: voteCount, scope: CONVERSA | TION, type: ENTITY_BEAN, class: com.n2.bo.VoteCount | [testng] 09:49:46,453 INFO [Lifecycle] starting up: entityManager | [testng] 09:49:46,453 INFO [Lifecycle] starting up: companyList | [testng] FAILED CONFIGURATION: @BeforeClass init | [testng] java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: EntityManagerFactory not found i | n JNDI | [testng] at org.jboss.seam.core.ManagedPersistenceContext.getEntityManage | rFactoryFromJndiOrValueBinding(ManagedPersistenceContext.java:164) | [testng] at org.jboss.seam.core.ManagedPersistenceContext.initEntityManag | er(ManagedPersistenceContext.java:77) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4053670#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...