No. "4.1. Inheritance of type-level metadata Suppose a class X is extended directly or indirectly by the bean class of a simple or session bean Y. ... • If X is annotated with a deployment type Z then Y inherits the annotation if and only if Z declares the @Inherited meta-annotation and neither Y nor any intermediate class that is a subclass of X and a superclass of Y declares a de- ployment type. " Here we are testing that Y doesn't inherit X's deployment type - X (Dog) indirectly extended by Y (GoldenRetriever) where some intermediate class (a subclass of X and a superclass of Y) declares a deployment type. Again, JIRA is a better place to discuss specific TCK test issues as then a proper record exists for posterity. Please open JIRA issues in the future. On 13 Mar 2009, at 21:53, Gurkan Erdogdu wrote: -- Pete Muir http://www.seamframework.org http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Pete