Yeah, I don't like how the exception filter prevents exceptions (though not errors, like assertion failures) from being propagated outside the run() method. Unfortunately, as I understand it, you can't prevent the exception filter from being installed. If I'm wrong, please, someone correct me. Maybe for now a convenient way would be to override the exception filter with a mock-precedence component that does nothing. I haven't tried it though. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4088990#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...