"kukeltje" wrote : Assignment handlers do not work in the start task. That is an interesting nugget of information - why would the start task not permit assignment? Guess I'll have to re-read the docs etc. My question still stands though - why does it fail when I try to jUnit the code, but (apparently) doesn't fail when the same code is executed in the application? "kukeltje" wrote : What does the logging tell you (maybe turn up the log level)I can't run the app up right now - in the middle of some changes going through. But I will check as soon as I can. "kukeltje" wrote : And guys... better to make a unit test from the beginning that demonstrates the problem instead of separate code snippets... I would have, but trying to extract a 'unit test' from hundreds lines of an application wasn't really practical. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4194372#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...