I love the idea, but I can't get it to run now.  When we first discussed this and I pulled your branch I was able to run it against AS7 master (i.e. 7.2.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT) without any issues whatsoever.  Now this is what I get:

jbertram@jbertram-laptop-510 ~/jboss/src/hornetq/git/hornetq/examples/javaee/mdb-bmt ((b1db925...)) $ mvn test
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[WARNING] 
[WARNING] Some problems were encountered while building the effective model for org.hornetq.example:hornetq-jee-mdb-bmt-example:jar:2.3.0-SNAPSHOT
[WARNING] 'build.plugins.plugin.version' for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin is missing. @ line 144, column 15
[WARNING] 
[WARNING] It is highly recommended to fix these problems because they threaten the stability of your build.
[WARNING] 
[WARNING] For this reason, future Maven versions might no longer support building such malformed projects.
[WARNING] 
[INFO]                                                                         
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building HornetQ JEE MDB Example 2.3.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.4.3:resources (default-resources) @ hornetq-jee-mdb-bmt-example ---
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /home/jbertram/jboss/src/hornetq/git/hornetq/examples/javaee/mdb-bmt/src/main/resources
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:compile (default-compile) @ hornetq-jee-mdb-bmt-example ---
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.4.3:copy-resources (ts.copy-jbossas.groups) @ hornetq-jee-mdb-bmt-example ---
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] Copying 1060 resources
[INFO] Copying 5 resources
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.4.3:testResources (default-testResources) @ hornetq-jee-mdb-bmt-example ---
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] Copying 1 resource
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ hornetq-jee-mdb-bmt-example ---
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.12:test (default-test) @ hornetq-jee-mdb-bmt-example ---
[INFO] Surefire report directory: /home/jbertram/jboss/src/hornetq/git/hornetq/examples/javaee/mdb-bmt/target/surefire-reports


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Running org.hornetq.javaee.example.server.ExampleRunnerTest
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.jboss.logging).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.
May 25, 2012 8:51:55 AM org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.MapObject populate
WARNING: Configuration contain properties not supported by the backing object org.jboss.as.arquillian.container.managed.ManagedContainerConfiguration
Unused property entries: {waitForPortsTimeoutInSeconds=8, waitForPorts=8787 9999}
Supported property names: [jbossHome, outputToConsole, enableAssertions, password, managementPort, javaHome, javaVmArguments, username, serverConfig, allowConnectingToRunningServer, managementAddress, startupTimeoutInSeconds, modulePath]
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.466 sec <<< FAILURE!


Results :


Tests in error: 
  org.hornetq.javaee.example.server.ExampleRunnerTest: javaHome must exist


Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Skipped: 0


[ERROR] There are test failures.


Please refer to /home/jbertram/jboss/src/hornetq/git/hornetq/examples/javaee/mdb-bmt/target/surefire-reports for the individual test results.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 6.786s
[INFO] Finished at: Fri May 25 08:51:55 CDT 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 12M/176M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Even if I add -DjavaHome=/path/to/my/jdk I still get the same result.  Any ideas?