sending emails direct or asynchronous should be a global setting. also think about testing. i used dumpster before and that worked great for testing emails. if there is a global configuration property to send emails directly, then no special testing infrastructure should be provided. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4223884#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...