I forgot about that JNDI bind part. Any reason why unit tests don't use BatchModeTransactionManager instead? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4040290#4040290 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4040290