I have a brief section on this in a wiki I am putting together to document these issues. See the section linked here: http://sidragon.net/wiki/JBoss_Seam_test_environment#Component_and_deploy... This gist is that it appears that you must have your EJB3 and Seam deployment descriptors in the same location as your component classes. Otherwise, the location never gets scanned. It would be extremely nice if there was a way to override this behavior. While I'm posting, does anyone have a suggestion for this problem: http://sidragon.net/wiki/JBoss_Seam_test_environment#Missing_FacesMessage... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3968612#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...