Hi , I have the exact same issue here trying to access the Spring NamedXmlApplicationContext bound to the global jndi context from a JUnit client. The lookup returns me a null instance of the Spring context although lookups work fine from within the JBoss container. Has anyone been successful doing that ? Thanks for any hint on this christian View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4132690#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...