I guess testng jar from testng site is causing all the trouble. trying with the jar from seam 2 dist View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4107874#4107874 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4107874