I don't mind being a guinea pig. I hope this helps other people who have the same issue. Most of what you guys are saying is going over my head, however I think if the teardown waited for the process to finish this would resolve this problem quite quickly. If I wanted to do this and override the tear down method in my Junit can you please post an example of how I would go about this? Would be a large amount of code involving checking the db or is there "isAlive()" method somewhere? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4251561#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...